The blue-bloods always worry about the money first.
Danforth's are almost as old-money as the Bush family, I bet.
"The blue-bloods always worry about the money first."
This is more true than we'd like to think. It's remarkable how little thought these supposedly well-educated people give to the values and the culture that underly and support all their wealth and everything else they value.
The answer to this riddle, perhaps, is that precisely because these people are "well-educated," they have absorbed more of the Left's propaganda than most of the rest of society has. Also, being in high social position, they have a phobia of saying anything that might be unpopular. If you go year after year, decade after decade, without saying that is truly unpopular with the Establishment (whose opinion matters most to you), you may actually lose the ability to think unorthodox thoughts.