Posted on 06/19/2023 10:19:04 AM PDT by John Semmens
Despite rhetoric intended to paint Republicans as the Party of the rich, demographic data and campaign donations indicate that higher income voters and big company corporate executives favor Democrats. In both the 2016 and 2020 elections the top 40% in terms of income supported Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden for president. In a recent CNBC survey, most millionaires supported Biden over Trump by double-digit margins. In the 2020 election, $200 million of Biden's campaign cash came in donations of over $100,000 apiece. In 2022, Republicans were elected in 64% of the districts where median incomes were below the national average.
Asked about these findings, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) said "I prefer to think of it as a case of the more intelligent voters at all income levels voting for Democrats. College graduates that comprise the majority of persons working in professional careers as lawyers, doctors, and corporate management appreciate that their path to success is aided by Democrat policies and regulations. Requiring college degrees to practice certain professions limits competition and allows higher fees to be charged. Having connections to fellow members of the elite within the government facilitates lobbying for government subsidies."
"At the lowest income levels, the smart choice is to take advantage of the generous options to acquire income without having to work for it," Schumer pointed out. "The return per hour worked can be infinite if no work is required. Voters in this income strata can see that it is Democrats who consistently rebuff Republican efforts to insert work requirements for able-bodied people receiving welfare benefits."
"Now, someone has to produce all the goods and services society needs," the Senator said. "Those too proud to beg or too dumb to figure out how to sponge off the system are going to have to do this work. They are society's losers. They can vote Republican if they want, but most Republicans in government come from the same college-educated elite as the Democrats. It is irrational to expect that these Republicans will desert their social peers in a futile effort to represent the rights and interests of society's losers."
A potential flaw in Schumer's reasoning is that the scheme to live off the product of someone else's initiative and labor may not be sustainable. Trends in tax collections are negative. Revenues for the current fiscal year are down $380 billion compared to last year. This means that more money must be borrowed. One of the biggest lenders has been China, which has a practice of seizing the property of owners who can't repay their debts.
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“NOW”?
Or have they always been the party of the wealthy elites?!
Hey now! They’s savin’ de erf!
Been the party of getting rich in office for many years.
Capitalism - The rich become powerful
Socialism - The powerful become rich
Socialism was always about the governing elites controlling the means of production and distribution for their benefit, about people like Marx not having to have real jobs for knowing how to make things or even properly handle other people’s money.
It isn’t semi-satire. It is true. The GOP may be the party of the Country Clubbers but the Democrats are the part of the billionaire class.
Yeah, now? That changed some time ago.
Yeah it did. 🤴
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