08-01-2017, 03:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-01-2017, 03:40 PM by Eric the Green.)
There are virtually no "left elites." The elite are the wealthy, not the well-educated. Especially corporate CEOs and managers, and financial players. Stats show that economic elites vote overwhelmingly Republican and conservative. Meanwhile, well-educated folks can't find jobs, and employed left so-called elites like teachers and professors make only average salaries.
Republicans rigged the system, through tax cuts, gerrymandering, deregulation; substantially "30 fucking years ago" as George Carlin said in about 2000+. I agree with him!
Before that, if the economy was "rigged," it was rigged to benefit the middle class and force the upper class to contribute. To some extent, THAT rigging was bi-partisan, at least to the extent that Eisenhower and his moderate Republicans were the co-riggers. But even then, the rich Republicans protested. Remember how FDR described their hatred for him, and how he welcomed their hatred. They were outvoted, then, and through the 1960s at least. Then they were voted in, particularly in 1980 and 1984 (and of course, in 1994, 1998, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016 etc.). But, they can be outvoted again.
Republicans rigged the system, through tax cuts, gerrymandering, deregulation; substantially "30 fucking years ago" as George Carlin said in about 2000+. I agree with him!
Before that, if the economy was "rigged," it was rigged to benefit the middle class and force the upper class to contribute. To some extent, THAT rigging was bi-partisan, at least to the extent that Eisenhower and his moderate Republicans were the co-riggers. But even then, the rich Republicans protested. Remember how FDR described their hatred for him, and how he welcomed their hatred. They were outvoted, then, and through the 1960s at least. Then they were voted in, particularly in 1980 and 1984 (and of course, in 1994, 1998, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016 etc.). But, they can be outvoted again.