[Peace-discuss] Rich Democrats

[David Johnson]

No,

 

It has everything to do with the Democratic party ( with few exceptions ) abandoning the Working class, with the result being 48 % of eligible voters ( U.S. citizens who have not been disenfranchised ) not voting in elections and / or voting for third parties where available. The largest voting bloc currently in the U.S. are those who identify as independents, neither Republican or Democrat. Poll after poll has shown in recent years that the majority of this independent voting bloc are to the Left of the Democratic party on almost every single issue.

 

Another good example of this disconnect are the results of many ballot initiatives nationwide ; raising the minimum wage in Arkansas and Missouri, expanding Medicaid coverage in Utah, Montana, and Idaho, ending disenfranchisement of citizens in Florida with previous felony convictions from voting, and many medical marijuana initiatives that passed including full legalization in Michigan.

While at the same time, most of the states listed above voted primarily for Republican candidates.

Also Medicare for All is now supported by 52 % of rank and file voting Republicans ( 85 % of Democrats and 74 % of independents ) and a majority of the American people are opposed to the ongoing wars.

 

All of these issues the Democratic party leadership opposes.

 

David J.

 

From: Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 11:11 AM
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Cc: Brussel, Morton K; peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
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Does it have anything to do with education and access to information?





On Nov 15, 2018, at 10:49 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

 

The geographic diversity of these victories should not disguise their economic homogeneity. Among the nearly forty House districts where Democrats took control in 2018, about thirty are rated “prosperous” or “comfortable” by the Economic Innovation Group, a bipartisan think tank. Of the forty-three “distressed” districts held by Republicans, Democrats flipped just two (NJ-2 and NM-2). 

In other words, the midterms confirmed that the Democrats have become — perhaps more than ever before in their two-hundred-year history — a party of the prosperous. The millionaire and billionaire governors, like Phil Murphy in New Jersey and J.B. Pritzker in Illinois, are only the gaudiest new constructions on the Democratic block. 

Cast your eye across a list of the twenty richest House districts in the United States, measured by median income: every single one of them now has a Democratic representative. Of the wealthiest forty districts, thirty-five of them just elected a Democrat; of the wealthiest fifty, that number is forty-two. 

full: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/11/midterm-elections-reconstruction-du-bois 

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