(August 7, 2018 at 9:03 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:Quote:This is the general theory of wages and voting preferences in a sentence: The more income you make, the more likely you are to vote Republican ... or to vote, at all.
It's a long-held political axiom, and it's upheld in a recent study by PayScale, the nation's largest private salary survey company. In research shared with The Atlantic, they showed that Americans who make less than $70,000 (about 70% of the country) are considerably more likely to vote Democratic. Those making more than $70,000 are more likely to vote Republican.
Does Your Wage Predict Your Vote?
If we skip ideology it all boils down to resources and those who are more willing to share, and those whom are paranoid and have way more than they need.
This is how lust for power and greed work in our species history.
It's sad that millionaires and billionaires worldwide, cannot see that they are needlessly and dangerously causing global instability by not recognizing that 62 uber billionaire individual/families have the combined wealth of 3 billion humans. Sitting on all that money just to have it when it could be used to stabilize global hot spots, is sad.
Even though America is better off than a lot of countries, our rich use that carrot of "American dream" to divide Americans and get urban blacks and rural whites pitted against each other. The truth of economic conservatism isn't about making workers lives better, but it is a race to the bottom, so we can look like the one party authoritarian capitalism like China, based on no regulations, no workers rights and cheap labor.