[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=flyer]Noting various generalizations being made concerning how Democratic voters are so much more prosperous than Republican voters.
Per the article below–it doesn’t look like that may be the case, but, perhaps subsidizing one’s way to prosperity will become the new norm for success going forward. After all, that’s so much easier than actually earning it. It will be interesting to see how long that works out in the real world.
Nothing new. It makes sense that prosperous people would lean Republican because they want lower taxes and have more wealth to protect. At the top, the main goal is wealth protection.
But to win elections, Republicans reply on a base to whom they preach the gospel of prosperity, hard work, nationalism…, essentially “conservative values” that historically confer onto the white masses superior social standing.
It also makes and sense that lower income people are more disengaged from the political process.
Demographics and the economy have changed. Technology, globalization of education, etc… Tech is more meritocracy than old line industries, so people in tech lean Democrats. Same goes for Hollywood where successful people maybe were struggling young people at one time.
Academics are more democrats because they value intellectual curiosity and consistency.
Trump voters are the base who’s thinking WTF, we’ve been had. But their pride can’t allow them to switch sides. In the past, they were referred to as cannon fodder sent out to war by be elite. Unfortunately for Trump voters, they can’t take nationalism, a ban on Muslim or Merry Chrisrmas to the bank.
On middle class prosperity, the good jobs require that a good university education are in blue areas. They are for the more academically inclined. That’s where democrats are more prosperous.[/quote]
I wonder why, then, the stats reveal the majority of voters from both the left and right are so clearly struggling financially? Such an interesting conundrum.
