Based strictly on my family's background and the mythos which the democrats have been selling for almost two hundred years (working class union member father, neither parent finished high school, etc.) I should have grown up a democrat. But somehow by the grace of G*d my great grandfather was a "hard shell" baptist abolitionist union army soldier from a border (read: slave) State and our family has been Republican now for at least four going on five generations.
Maybe at one time the democratic party could claim to represent "the working man" without it being entirely laughable, but no more. The "working classes", along with ethnic minorities and other splinter factions, are kept on as window dressing and muscle for a party whose real foundations are marxist university "elites" and government bureaucrats who survive by feeding from the public trough.
In any case, welcome to the light.
Maybe at one time the democratic party could claim to represent "the working man" without it being entirely laughable, but no more. The "working classes", along with ethnic minorities and other splinter factions, are kept on as window dressing and muscle for a party whose real foundations are marxist university "elites" and government bureaucrats who survive by feeding from the public trough. Fantastic point. It is one I talk about quite often myself. The Democrats are for the NON working man rather than the working man. Think about it. Who are the biggest Democrats: 1) Felons 2) Welfare Queens 3) Trust Fund Babies 4) Hollywood Luminaries 5) Trial Lawyers It is hard for me to find more people who soak off of others than that group above. They are the base of the Democrat Party!!!!