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The Democrats’ Brahmin Left Problem

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Posted By: gaboy, 3/15/2025 1:01:05 PM

The Democrats have become and remain today a “Brahmin Left” party. “Brahmin Left” is a term coined by economist Thomas Piketty and colleagues to characterize Western left parties increasingly bereft of working-class voters and increasingly dominated by highly educated voters and elites, including of course our own Democratic Party. The Brahmin Left character of the party has evolved over many decades but spiked in the 21st century. The chart below illustrates this trend.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: OhioNick 3/15/2025 1:17:11 PM (No. 1914944)
There are also tens of millions of Democrat voters living in housing projects in America's biggest cities. That's the true Democrat voter base. These voters are hardly educated or elite.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Italiano 3/15/2025 1:58:13 PM (No. 1914957)
If they're so "educated," why are they so stupid?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: BarryNo 3/15/2025 2:42:40 PM (No. 1914972)
Cruelty is a relative term, and the 'great unwashed' know it well. It's cruel to fire America workers and replace them with illegal foreigners. It's cruel when a family member is killed in auto accidents by illegal aliens. It's cruel when they are murdered or raped by illegals. It's cruel to see illegals given benefits they never worked for. It's cruel when your beliefs are trampled over, and your government promowes a philosophy completely at odds with uour own - punishing you and calling you domestic terrorists. It's cruel when they spy on you, break into your homes and murder you with no warrant and without consequence. Its cruel when they conspirelieved to censor your words and cancel your vote with the names of the long dead... We know cruelty, and it is epitomized by the Democrat Party and the bought and paid with our taxes, allies and buerocracy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: cor-vet 3/15/2025 3:50:38 PM (No. 1914998)
I wish we could stop using the phrase 'swamp.' A real swamp is an ecologically beautiful creation of nature, teeming with life. What we have is a sewer, full of rats, slime and bovine Scat!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 3/15/2025 3:56:31 PM (No. 1915001)
The problem with having a party made up of elites in a voting democracy is that, by description, the elite are a small group. You NEED the votes of the non-elite. The dems used to work hard to get those votes but over time, they backed off. Plus, they never really accomplished the goals they say they were working for. So after decades of not fulfillment of their goals is it any surprise that Americans gave them a pink slip? Plus, Trump came at things a different way. Instead of promising the government would deliver things, Trump promised to level the playing field so that the non elites would have a chance for self improvement. That is a lot easier to do than the effort and cost for the government to deliver goodies. Plus, delivering a true taste of success begets the desire for more, which of course is why Capitalism works. Most people will choose to work hard if they are fairly rewarded for their efforts.Trump's first term delivered on that promise, Bidet's term ruined it. What more do you need to know?
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