On one hand, we are continually told that the “rich” are Republican. On the other hand, we are told that the most educated, ergo, more successful, are Democrats. Pick a side. Which is it?
I’ll give you a hint. College educated baristas( et al) making average to below average salaries and PhD. educators are heavily Democratic. That makes up a large portion of the “educated” base the Democrats like to tout so much. The college educated folks with higher salaries tend to be more Republican. As income rises, to a point, so does the lilkihood of voting Republican. By most metrics, income(location adjusted) is a key measure of success. You guessed it, the more successful people, both college educated and not, the more likely they are to be Republican. This only goes for the working “rich”. The ultra-rich are predominately Democrat. They are undoubtedly very successful and need to protect their wealth. They laugh as the left’s rhetoric spouts the “rich must pay their fair share” because they know it won’t affect them, but rather those working “rich” Republicans, who are the ones paying the vast majority of taxes. Once policies start harming the ultra-rich directly, they suddenly change their tune(SALT cap is the PERFECT example).
So yes, to some extent, the Republican Party is for the party of the “rich”, but it is the working, successful “rich”. The Democratic Party is made up the poorest of the poor(least successful) and the richest of the rich, the most successful that do have a multitude of ways to avoid paying high taxes. The middle class is split. The lower income middle class lean left and they start shifting more to the right as income rises.
