Are All Rich People Now Liberals?
17th August 2010
Slate, a Voice of the Crust, unable to deny the truth any longer, still attempts to pooh-pooh it.
Callahan fully documents that the Democratic Party is much more dominated by huge donations and corporate influence than ever in its history. In the 2008 election cycle, for example, all five of the largest West Coast technology firms whose employees made political donations—Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard—gave to Democrats over Republicans by a factor of 3-to-1 or even 4-to-1.
The thesis is that, well, yeah, rich people are all lefties now, but that’s because they’ve seen the light about putting everything in the hand of Big Gov.
The 21st-century titan has made his fortune not in shabby trades like oil, timber, or wage-slave manufacturing, but rather in sparkling, knowledge-economy fields like law, finance, technology, and entertainment. (This part of Callahan’s book was excerpted in Sunday’s Washington Post.) Hence he (it’s still mostly he) has seen the value of what only government is likely to provide: a well-educated work force; meritocratic immigration policy; speedy infrastructure; and thriving capital markets. The odds are very high that he attended at least university in a liberal-left coastal city, where he learned the good graces of racial and sexual tolerance.
Never mind that this ‘well-educated work force’ had somebody else pay for their education, so naturally they’re looking for somebody else’s teat to suck on as they go through life. Never mind that the ‘meritocratic immigration policy’ is a cheap myth promoted by people who want to continue the century-old tradition that immigrants vote Democrat. Never mind that lefties want to choke of the ‘speedy infrastructure’ by slowing traffic from airplanes and cars down to trains and bicycles, putting specially-privileged groups in HOV lanes rather than widening streets for everybody. Nope, rich people are lefties because all correct-thinking (oops, almost said right-thinking) people are lefties, so that’s really not a problem, really, not a problem.
Ignored is the fact that knowledge workers check their brains at the door of the voting booth because they’ve been carefully broken in college to the left-wing agenda, like horses at a ranch or kids at a Young Pioneers summer camp.