Does the Republican Party predominately represent the 1% ?

[Uncle Joe]

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[scheming daemons]

1. Yes. But Bernie says it is the Democrats.

[Uncle Joe]

3. How long do you believe the Republicans have predominately represented the 1% ?

2 Years, 5 years, ten, twenty or longer?

[scheming daemons]

5. Since the days of the robber barons. It is why Teddy left the GOP

Taft through Trump, theyve always represented the wealthy.

[Hortensis]

16. And before. The progressive, liberal-dominated wing left

the Republican Party, along with some progressive conservatives, because the conservative wing that served business and the wealthy had become too strong over the last 3 decades.

Notably, both Teddy Roosevelt and Taft, leaders of the Republican and the Progressive parties (before that failed and liberals flooded into and brought back to life the moribund Democratic Party that had been taken over by frontier conservatives), considered themselves PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVES, as did Eisenhower later on. The short-lived Progressive Party is considered to have been center left overall.

[deminks]

2. I would say exclusively. nt

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[Amishman]

6. No, they are more if a coalition of single issue voter blocs

Pirate capitalists
Aggressive evangelicals
Gun nuts
racists
Pseudo libertarians
Anarcho capitalists

Each is willing to ignore everything else as long as a few crumbs are tossed their way on their pet issue

[Ron Green]

7. More like the 10%.

[FSogol]

8. Why does Sanders think otherwise?

[Uncle Joe]

10. Your post is both non-factual and based on recent events illogical. n/t

[FSogol]

15. His own words say otherwise: "The Democratic Party must open its doors, bring new people in, and

once again be the party that represents working people, not just the one percent." - Bernie Sanders.

Was his twitter account hacked? Did he mean not'nt?

Your thread is a desperate attempt to change reality. Very sad.

[Uncle Joe]

17. Do you believe the Republican Party predominately represents the interests of the 1% and

if so for how long has this happened?

[FSogol]

19. Save it. Not buying your deflection. Sanders is atacking the Democrats. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

21. So you can't or won't answer the question. n/t

[FSogol]

23. I already answered your poll and not interested in playing games. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

26. You voted yes but how long do you believe the Republican Party has predominately represented the

interests of the 1% or less than 1% ?

I'm just curious as to your beliefs.

[Recursion]

9. I'd say more the 15%

Democrats actually do better with voters from households making $150K and up than we do with households making $75K-$150K. That is the Republican sweet spot.

[Uncle Joe]

11. I'm not asking where the votes come from but in regards to actual representation. n/t

[Recursion]

14. Politicians are pretty good at dancing with who brung them

That's the income level that starts to see some of the bigger tax cuts hit from the latest plan. And the GOP makes damn sure to keep the government programs these people rely on alive but hidden.

It also explains some of the insistence with which most of the GOP hates Obamacare: that is exactly the income level that took it on the chin with that law.

[Uncle Joe]

22. I don't believe this to be the case Recursion

The Republican tax bill, which Congress sent to President Trump on Wednesday, would give most Americans a tax cut next year, according to a new analysis. However, it would by far benefit the richest Americans the most. Meanwhile, many lower- and middle-class Americans would have higher taxes a decade from now ... unless a future Congress extends the cuts.

The average household would get a tax cut of $1,610 in 2018, a bump of about 2.2 percent in that average household's income, according to a report released Monday by the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank that has been critical of the tax overhaul plan.

However, extremes make averages, and the benefits would be much larger for richer households. A household earning $1 million or more would get an average cut of $69,660, an income bump of 3.3 percent. Compare that with the a tax cut of $870, or 1.6 percent, for the average household earning $50,000 to $75,000.

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This would mean a tiny tax bump for many lower- and middle-class households — the average $50,000 to $75,000 — earning household would have a tax bill that is $30 higher than today. The average household earning more than $1 million would get a cut of more than $23,000.


https://www.npr.org/2017/12/19/571754894/charts-see-how-much-of-gop-tax-cuts-will-go-to-the-middle-class

[Recursion]

24. It said right there: $75K was where it starts to get bigger

It does basically nothing for people making less than $75K, which is the income level where you start to see an actual benefit.

[Uncle Joe]

28. If you're stating the vast majority of the benefits go to the extremely wealthy,

I agree with you.

[Recursion]

12. This gets to how the phrase "working class" conjures up the wrong image

Nationwide, the median income for a white family with two earners, both of them high school graduates, is about $80K. The WWC isn't exactly in dire financial trouble.

[gollygee]

13. It also manipulates other people for the benefit of the 1%, but yes. nt

[onenote]

18. Not sure what you're asking

If you're asking whether the republican party's support comes predominantly from the 1% the answer obviously is no.

If you're asking whether the republican party represents the interests of the 1%, it's complicated because there is no single set of 1% interests. There are many 1%-ers that are Democrats and that support the Democratic party and agenda. Are they acting contrary to their own "interest" or do they simply define their "interests" differently than republicans, including both the 1% segment and all of those outside the 1% group that also support and feel represented by republicans.

For what its worth, voters with incomes over $250K were basically evenly divided between Hillary and Trump according to exit polling (the NY Times gives a slight edge to Trump; CNN gives a slight edge to Hillary).

[Uncle Joe]

20. I'm asking in regards to policies that predominately favor the 1% or less than 1%

is that the Republican Party's "prime directive?"

If you believe they do for how long has this been the case?

I'm not trying to parse the interests of the 1% or less than 1% they do have different levels of enlightenment but just in regards to the Republican Party's primary allegiance.

[Recursion]

25. It also depends on which 1% you mean

By income or net worth? By household, individual, or household per capita? You get some surprisingly different groups of people when you look at each of those in turn: remember that we're talking about nearly 3 and a half million people here, which is almost the population of Los Angeles.

[Uncle Joe]

31. It's all relative, Los Angeles does have a large population unless

you compare it to the rest of the nation, then you get even more different groups of people, including literally tens of millions of Americans that don't or haven't voted.

For one reason or another they gave up on the process.

[shockey80]

27. The super rich and special interest groups run the Republican party.

Working class Republican voters are to stupid to figure it out.

[andym]

29. They are controlled by the 1%, but represent a much larger coalition:

evangelicals,
anti-abortion single issue voters
many libertarians
bigots
fiscal conservatives
social conservatives
Obviously, there is overlap.

[Freddie]

30. Deal with the Devil

2 kinds of Republicans:
The very wealthy (and selfish)
Idiots who want to go back to the "good old days" when women, minorities and immigrants "knew their place", and you could support a family on a factory job right out of HS.

[Uncle Joe]

33. I would rather deal with the tens of millions of disaffected American voters that have given up

on the process than chase after the people described in your post, wouldn't you Freddie?

[Freddie]

34. Agree

The folks who bought St. Ronnie's message of "government is the problem", politicians are always corrupt, etc. are the ones we should go after. They are the legions who don't vote because it "makes no difference." And see what their not voting brought us. We have to find a way to reach them.

[Uncle Joe]

36. + Infinity

[Afromania]

32. Yep, the other idiots are just along for the ride being controlled by a mixutre of fear and hate

from those at the top.

[Uncle Joe]

37. I totally agree Afromania

[MrsCoffee]

35. Anyone who tries to paint the Democratic Party as the party of the 1% TODAY....

Can fuck right off.