11-03-2016, 11:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-03-2016, 11:27 AM by Eric the Green.)
(11-03-2016, 10:51 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Eric most execs and owners at large US corporations are now Dems. The "bosses" who feed their workers with dog whistled BS in order to cause the low paid to fight each other are the bosses of small businesses plus maybe a few dying, old school larger firms (like that asshole at the coal company who ended up in prison). A classic example of this is right here on our forum, what's-his-name in Wisconsin who always gets in flame wars with you and talks a lot about fighting everyone. Classic-Xer, or something.
According to the stats I've seen, no, they are still overwhelmingly Repugs. Classic Xer I think is from Minnesota, and I regard him as just another one of those less-educated white pawns, and it makes no difference if they are small business "bosses," or workers in larger businesses; they are not the wealthy high-tech execs that supposedly are now Democrats. But I'm sure some of them here in Silicon Valley and other liberal, well-educated high-tech hubs are Democrats (at least centrist "new" Democrats), and many of those high-tech execs here are immigrants, not white alt-right down-home red-neck Trumpsters.
Whether down-home small-time business owners, are larger big time execs, bosses benefit from low taxes and less regulations, and so they are enthusiastic trickle-downers. And the small-time ones tend to be willing pawns as well for the big time players.