“elites don’t share the anxieties of ordinary folk.”
OK, that sounds better than anything anyone else has come up with.
But, as you hinted with your comment about how many of your anxieties would be relieved if you were to receive a million dollars a month, most anxieties that ordinary folk share are related to finances, in one way other. So, on your view, the elites are the people with sufficient wealth they don’t have worry about paying the mortgage, putting their kids through college, getting layed off, etc etc.
Wouldn’t that mean most of the Great Elite are Republicans?
>>Wouldn’t that mean most of the Great Elite are Republicans?<<
“Republicans” like Kennedy, Clinton, Soros, Edwards?
Not any more. Almost all of the tech millionaires are leftists. That influence is starting to show up in things like Google searches as non-politically correct sites are de-linked.
Nope. Once you are over $100,000 a year, the probability you vote D is higher than R and it keeps climbing the more you make. The R's have become the middle class party. The D's the party of the upper and underclass.
OTOH, a bunch of the elite are R's.
Jesus H. Elites are by definition those who place themselve 'above' everyone else. It hasn't anything to do with party. Barbara Boxer, Barbara Striesand, in fact, any ugly female democrat with the first name Barbara is probably an elitist.
In fact, a Republican with money has likely earned it the hard way; whereas the Democrat came upon it by virtue of birth. Both may seem elitist, yet what motivates them is critical. The one that empowers the individual rather than the state, gets my vote.
In the Democrat's propaganda world, yes. In the real world, the Republicans are the party of the middle class, and the Democrats are the party of the rich, posturing as the party of the poor. This can be seen not only in the tendency of the Democrats to be supported by a relatively few, relatively large donations as compared to the Republicans, but by the red-blue map broken down by counties - which reveals that the Democrats do best in the inner cities and also in the toney suburbs, while Republicans do best in suburban and rural districts.Democratic politics are the conspicuous consumption of the rich; the middle class can't afford them.