Why the Democrats have become the party of wealth
Actually, I don't know the answer to this. Guilt? Boredom? Easy to sell their votes? Foreign interests? But I think there was a lot of ignorance displayed in the comments to this column at wealth report.- "Democrats are winning the war on ideas."
- Have they had a new idea since the 60s?
- But Democrats ran on this in 2006 as soft and squishy, pro-family and loving Jesus, and won. They watched what the Republicans did in 2004 and imitated them.
- Huh?
- Show me where these so-called "moral majority" folks are in power. Where is the community that doesn't have abortion clinics, or judges saying gays can marry, or isn't tied up in regulatory red tape trying to save a spider or worm. Yes, where is all this conservative power?
- Oh sure, creationists just have so much power. I started school in the 1940s and was NEVER taught anything but evolution. The commenters have been watching too many old movies. This is a media-made straw-man and these commenters are the proof. You can't put 5 Christians in a room and get them to agree on a 24-hour day, or a billion year day.
"being a Republican is increasingly associated with cultural conservatism vs economic conservatism–anti-abortion, fundamental Christianity, and on some level, a general hostility to gays and ethnic minorities."
"nobody seems to have fully recognized the fault line between Burke-ean/Kirk-ean true communitarian conservatives vs Locke-ean/J.S. Mill-ean individualistic liberals."
"Republicans have surrendered or been highjacked by the “(im)moral majority” and neo-con paranoids, the normal people in the middle are left to vote democratic."
"A reason for the rich (especially those from tech industries) to turn away from the Republican party? Creationism, to which the base is attached."
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