MAGA problem: Being average does not get you anything

Nordic countries have family leave and generous benefits that allow women to have careers. Daycare and so on is available to everybody. You do not need to be poor.

In the US, benefits are fewer. So there is less money. You can get a scholarship to go to college if you are smart and poor, not so much if smart and rich.

MEGA Bill (I have no idea of his name, he was in the press a lot maybe 8 years ago) is extremely average.

He finished high school, not very hard in his state. He was not under the poverty line growing up. But not far above it as an adult. He was not smart, his kids are not terribly smart, though his daughter is smarter than he is. But nobody is going to college. They are stuck. The government is "not doing anything for them."

This is a typical situation. Being very average, as far as DEI, makes it look like they are being discriminated against.

KURT VONNEGUT

Vonnegut spotted this feature of humans in a short story called Harrison Bergeron. In that world, political correctness had gone to the extreme. Good athletes had to be weighed down to be like everybody else. Smart people had to listen to an earpiece producing noise to distract them from all that smart thinking. Those with beauty have to wear an ugly mask. The handicaps were set by law. The main character attempts a revolution against the system and Diana Moon Glamper,  the Handicapper General.

I'm not sure if MAGA Bill would really want all this. Who would fix his laptop or his smart phone if we are all forced to me mediocre. But Bill would not need to wear any handicaps. He is average.