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Democratic Party won't admit it's become the party of wealth
Townhall.com ^ | July 15, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 07/15/2021 5:32:19 AM PDT by Kaslin

How often during the last year of wokeness have middle- and lower-class Americans listened to multimillionaires of all races and genders lecture them on their various pathologies and oppressions?

University presidents with million-dollar salaries virtue-signal on the cheap their own sort of "unearned white privilege."

Meghan Markle and the Obamas, from their plush estates, indict Americans for their biases.

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors Brignac decries the oppressive victimization she and others have suffered -- from one of her four recently acquired homes.

Do we need another performance-art sermon on America's innate unfairness from billionaire entertainers such as Beyonce, Jay-Z or Oprah Winfrey, or from multimillionaire Delta or Coca-Cola CEOs?

During the 1980s cultural war, the left's mantra was "race, class and gender." Occasionally we still hear of that trifecta, but the class part has increasingly disappeared. The neglect of class is ironic given that a number of recent studies conclude class differences are widening as never before.

Middle-class incomes among all races have stagnated, and family net worth has declined. Far greater percentages of rising incomes go to the already rich. Student debt, mostly a phenomenon of the middle and lower classes, has hit $1.7 trillion.

States such California have bifurcated into medieval-style societies. California's progressive coastal elites boast some of the highest incomes in the nation. But in the more conservative north and central interior, nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line -- explaining why one of every three American welfare recipients lives in California.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: demonrats; elitism; progressives; victordavishanson; woke
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1 posted on 07/15/2021 5:32:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

There is no Demmocratic party. It’s been replaced by a Marxist death cult.


2 posted on 07/15/2021 5:34:43 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: LIConFem

“There is no Demmocratic party. It’s been replaced by a Marxist death cult.”

I would argue that the Dems haven’t changed. The public has been sufficiently indoctrinated to the point where the Dems have dropped their mask. We are seeing the true Dem party.


3 posted on 07/15/2021 5:39:23 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: Kaslin

Wealth by theft of the American taxpayers.


4 posted on 07/15/2021 5:39:26 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: LIConFem
There has never been a Demmocritic Party. It does not exist, and never has. The word is Democratic with one m not two.
5 posted on 07/15/2021 5:41:29 AM PDT by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Kaslin

More like the party of rich elites.

It’s the same as it always was.

It was the party of the plantation and slave owners back in the founding, their children, the Woodrow Wilson crowd, and now it’s the party of the economic slave owners who keep poor people poor and stupid with government programs and student loans instead of chains.


6 posted on 07/15/2021 5:41:42 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Kaslin

Let’s call this marriage of leftists in government and corporatists what it really is - Fascism.


7 posted on 07/15/2021 5:41:56 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: LIConFem

Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare, and combine to bring about as much financial stress as possible, in order to discredit the policy of the government and thereby secure a reversal of that policy, so that they may enjoy unmolested the fruits of their own evil-doing. I regard this contest as one to determine who shall rule this free country—the people through their governmental agents, or a few ruthless and domineering men whose wealth makes them peculiarly formidable because they hide behind the breastworks of corporate organization.

Address by Teddy Roosevelt, 1907


8 posted on 07/15/2021 5:43:55 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Cows don't give milk. You have to work for it.)
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To: Sirius Lee

We have only one major political party in this country, and it is the Fascist Party.


9 posted on 07/15/2021 5:46:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Sirius Lee

The pathetic GOP party, a party led by farmers and small business interests ( cheap labor whores ), is not much of an opposition party.


10 posted on 07/15/2021 5:46:38 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin

Limousine liberals


11 posted on 07/15/2021 5:47:05 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: Kaslin

“Do we need another performance-art sermon on America’s innate unfairness from billionaire entertainers such as Beyonce, Jay-Z or Oprah Winfrey, or from multimillionaire Delta or Coca-Cola CEOs?”

Talk is cheap.


12 posted on 07/15/2021 5:51:54 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Kaslin

The Dems are the grifters. In All programs they propose they take their cut right off the top and no one can do anything about it. I.e. Solyndra


13 posted on 07/15/2021 5:54:09 AM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: Kaslin

Letting men use the ladies room is cheap.

A wealth tax is costly.


14 posted on 07/15/2021 5:55:29 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Kaslin

Correction, it is the democrat party, nothing democratic about them.


15 posted on 07/15/2021 5:56:31 AM PDT by exnavy (grow some thick skin, i do not care for whiners)
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To: Kaslin

Hanson comes through again.

He is just so reasonable and commonsensical.

BTW, anyone know who the women are in the photos on the shelves behind him in the telecasts? Wife, mother, daughter?


16 posted on 07/15/2021 6:00:38 AM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: LIConFem

“Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen”

Under Marxism, all who can work must work.

What we have is vote buying.


17 posted on 07/15/2021 6:00:38 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Kaslin
The Dems' mantra is "Soak the rich!"

I think we have more to fear from the Soakers than from the rich.

Communism: Coming to a country near you.

18 posted on 07/15/2021 6:01:54 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: alloysteel

Great catch!

I am a fierce admirer of TR!


19 posted on 07/15/2021 6:03:05 AM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: Brian Griffin

Just wait until all our ghetto Marxists find out they are going to have to work for a living!


20 posted on 07/15/2021 6:04:50 AM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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