Why do the rich vote Democrat?

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Anonymous wrote:This says more about the Democratic Party than its rich voter base. It's because the Democratic Party has abandoned the economic issues that actually help poor people. They'd way rather virtue signal than actually require the wealthy to make any sacrifices.

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Anonymous wrote:This says more about the Democratic Party than its rich voter base. It's because the Democratic Party has abandoned the economic issues that actually help poor people. They'd way rather virtue signal than actually require the wealthy to make any sacrifices.

LOL what “sacrifices” does the Republican Party want the wealthy to make?

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Anonymous wrote:Why do the wealthiest places in America - the Upper East Side, Scarsdale, Greenwich, Chevy Chase, Winnetka, Beverly Hills etc. - vote D? Don't they do better under Republican policies?

Educated voters generally vote democrat, it is self evident as to why. The real question is, why are all of these highly educated elites pretending to be of the people in the GOP. People like DiSantis, Senator Kennedy, senator hawley - go from their beginnings to the coastal elite universities and then put on a regular joe face and act like they are pig farmers and do nothing for the people they represent.

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Anonymous wrote:This says more about the Democratic Party than its rich voter base. It's because the Democratic Party has abandoned the economic issues that actually help poor people. They'd way rather virtue signal than actually require the wealthy to make any sacrifices.

Democrats are not the ones pulling funding for SNAP and threatening to end social security and medicare, nor are they the ones who eschew unions and rights for workers, you know, the economic issues that help poor people.

Where exactly is the GOP on these issues? Please be specific.

You simply need to read the GOP's latest platform for this info.

The one that says "we have no platform, vote for Trump"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lifelong democrat here. Every election cycle, environmental protections climb higher on my priority list. Democrats aren’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but I wonder what would have happened if jimmy Carter’s solar panels, placed in 1979, had stayed on the roof of the White House. Perhaps we would be way ahead in the renewables game by now. Reagan stripped funding from the renewables program and eliminated tax credits and set us back decades.

Or if Al Gore had been awarded the White House instead of Bush.

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As a successful, high-earning women it seems very obvious to me that Republicans want to kick women out of the workforce except for the most undesirable jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:As a successful, high-earning women it seems very obvious to me that Republicans want to kick women out of the workforce except for the most undesirable jobs.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:This says more about the Democratic Party than its rich voter base. It's because the Democratic Party has abandoned the economic issues that actually help poor people. They'd way rather virtue signal than actually require the wealthy to make any sacrifices.

LOL what “sacrifices” does the Republican Party want the wealthy to make?

This lazy-ass binary kills the Democrats. That the GOP sucks doesn’t make the Democrats look all that much better. Simpler version: if you had to choose between being robbed+beaten by two gangs, one who called you worthless because “you’re lazy” (GOP) and another who said “you’re racist” (Democrats), a reasonable person might say “neither”. And furthermore, when the abusive sting of their rhetoric might be the only meaningful difference between them, it’s not hard to imagine people’s thought process being highly personal.

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Anonymous wrote:This says more about the Democratic Party than its rich voter base. It's because the Democratic Party has abandoned the economic issues that actually help poor people. They'd way rather virtue signal than actually require the wealthy to make any sacrifices.

LOL what “sacrifices” does the Republican Party want the wealthy to make?

This lazy-ass binary kills the Democrats. That the GOP sucks doesn’t make the Democrats look all that much better. Simpler version: if you had to choose between being robbed+beaten by two gangs, one who called you worthless because “you’re lazy” (GOP) and another who said “you’re racist” (Democrats), a reasonable person might say “neither”. And furthermore, when the abusive sting of their rhetoric might be the only meaningful difference between them, it’s not hard to imagine people’s thought process being highly personal.

Both sides!

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Anonymous wrote:This says more about the Democratic Party than its rich voter base. It's because the Democratic Party has abandoned the economic issues that actually help poor people. They'd way rather virtue signal than actually require the wealthy to make any sacrifices.

LOL what “sacrifices” does the Republican Party want the wealthy to make?

This lazy-ass binary kills the Democrats. That the GOP sucks doesn’t make the Democrats look all that much better. Simpler version: if you had to choose between being robbed+beaten by two gangs, one who called you worthless because “you’re lazy” (GOP) and another who said “you’re racist” (Democrats), a reasonable person might say “neither”. And furthermore, when the abusive sting of their rhetoric might be the only meaningful difference between them, it’s not hard to imagine people’s thought process being highly personal.

Both sides!

Thanks, Slow Leaners Lazy Chorus!

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Anonymous wrote:This says more about the Democratic Party than its rich voter base. It's because the Democratic Party has abandoned the economic issues that actually help poor people. They'd way rather virtue signal than actually require the wealthy to make any sacrifices.

LOL what “sacrifices” does the Republican Party want the wealthy to make?

This lazy-ass binary kills the Democrats. That the GOP sucks doesn’t make the Democrats look all that much better. Simpler version: if you had to choose between being robbed+beaten by two gangs, one who called you worthless because “you’re lazy” (GOP) and another who said “you’re racist” (Democrats), a reasonable person might say “neither”. And furthermore, when the abusive sting of their rhetoric might be the only meaningful difference between them, it’s not hard to imagine people’s thought process being highly personal.

It’s not lazy to say the Republican Party looked at a ten year old rape victim and said “she should be legally required to give birth to her rapists child” and than tried to make a villain of her doctor.

It doesn’t have to be complicated— does the political party want me to die of sepsis while they decide if my miscarriage is life threatening or do I have the baseline right to bodily autonomy equivalent to a man.

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Anonymous wrote:This says more about the Democratic Party than its rich voter base. It's because the Democratic Party has abandoned the economic issues that actually help poor people. They'd way rather virtue signal than actually require the wealthy to make any sacrifices.

LOL what “sacrifices” does the Republican Party want the wealthy to make?

This lazy-ass binary kills the Democrats. That the GOP sucks doesn’t make the Democrats look all that much better. Simpler version: if you had to choose between being robbed+beaten by two gangs, one who called you worthless because “you’re lazy” (GOP) and another who said “you’re racist” (Democrats), a reasonable person might say “neither”. And furthermore, when the abusive sting of their rhetoric might be the only meaningful difference between them, it’s not hard to imagine people’s thought process being highly personal.

It’s not lazy to say the Republican Party looked at a ten year old rape victim and said “she should be legally required to give birth to her rapists child” and than tried to make a villain of her doctor.

It doesn’t have to be complicated— does the political party want me to die of sepsis while they decide if my miscarriage is life threatening or do I have the baseline right to bodily autonomy equivalent to a man.

That might be a reason to not vote GOP. It says almost nothing about anything else, including about the rich or the Democrats. It’s a non-sequitur here.

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Rich women aren’t going to have their 19 y/o DD walking around pregnant. I don’t blame them.

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Anonymous wrote:The areas that you cite are highly educated. Education level is a bigger driver in party affiliation. The more educated you are the more likely you are to vote for Democrats. The less educated you are, the more likely you are to vote for Republicans.

That is a result of indoctrination in the colleges, not education

DP. "Indoctrination in colleges"? You mean being taught to think critically? Not accepting the status quo? Questioning authority? Examining history and society through different lenses? Challenging widely-held beliefs? Learning about other cultures and political systems? Fostering intellectual curiosity? If that's "indoctrination," I'll take it.

No, I mean being failed in classes for not thinking critically and not accepting the current leftist agenda, whatever that may be. Colleges are a group think exercise now.

Only people who didn't go to college would think this. There are hundreds of majors in a college and thousands of courses. Most of those courses have zero to do with any kind of politics, left or otherwise, and those things are so completely irrelevant to most of the college professors that when someone says something like that you can immediately tell they have no idea what a college campus is like. There are also thousands of colleges in the US, and some are left-wing oases and others are run by televangelists, and then there is everything in between. You're showing your ignorance by spouting this group think nonsense. Also, group think is the opposite of critical thinking, so you don't even know what it is you are opposing.

Wrong. I have a master’s and now have kids in college. They can’t escape it.

A master's in what?

So you're telling us they are hearing about CRT in their calc class?

They can't escape the cultural conversation, because it is all over social media (which, as college students, they are probably on all the time). But in class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a Democrat in Chevy Chase, I can report that I cite for Democrats because I care about people other than myself.

This. I also care about the environment, women's rights, LGBTQ and racial equality.