I'm going to say right now, I'm resentful as a parent that my kids have to do more than other kids to get into certain colleges.
Asian American voters backed Trump in Nevada. Here's how they feel about him now
The central tragedy of the United States is the fact that despite often being considered the single wealthiest nation on Earth in terms of national net wealth, it has not found a way to grow the proverbial pie large enough that it's various constituencies don't feel the need to resent what others are getting. Even for something like education, which can easily be seen as as asset to the nation as a whole, scarcity pits groups of citizens against one another, not to mention immigrants. And our political system tends to cater to people's resentments, rather than find a way to obviate the need for them.
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