Charlottesville, Trump and angry white males

[TCassidy]

Did 'good people' attend Charlottesville rally?

I’m going to tackle the ten-ton elephant in the room. Charlottesville. What a disgrace. What a tragedy.

But what the hell does it have to do with President Donald Trump? The answer is nothing. Let me explain.

I truly am the expert on what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend. Because I wrote the book -- literally.

My 2016 book "Angry White Male" explained, analyzed and predicted the entire Trump phenomenon and election victory- when no one else saw it coming.

As a card-carrying S.O.B. (son of a butcher), I have a unique understanding of butchers, bakers and candlestick makers. I grew up in a blue-collar New York neighborhood of cops, firemen, nurses, mechanics, and small business owners.

I love the middle class and small business owners (who are America's upper middle class). I understand them. I understand how important they are to the U.S. economy.

Pew Research reports the American middle class is composed of four groups and all of them are predominantly white.

My book explained in detail why the middle class overwhelmingly supported Trump. It was titled “Angry White Male” simply because the American middle class is primarily white. And as a kid who grew up white, male and middle class, I have a unique understanding of the hopes, dreams and fears of that specific group.

The typical Trump voter is NOT a racist. I was opening speaker at all six Donald Trump campaign events in Las Vegas. I never saw or heard one instance of racism at any Trump event...nor at any of the hundreds of Tea Party events that I spoke at across America from 2009 to 2015.

The anger of almost every white middle class Trump voter has nothing to do with racism...and everything to do with economics. It’s about financial survival, not race. The middle class is being targeted for extinction. It is being persecuted and wiped off the face of the earth by liberal/progressive/socialist economic policies.

The middle class and small business owners are not concerned with the color of anyone's skin. They are concerned with big taxes, big regulations, big government, illegal immigration and using ObamaCare, climate change, and government agencies like the EPA and the IRS to kill our jobs and redistribute our hard-earned income. Those are the reasons middle class voters are angry. Those are the reasons 63 million Americans chose Donald Trump. Not race.

We are fighting for our survival. We know liberal big government policies are destroying our jobs, incomes, assets, opportunity and mobility. We know liberal big government policies are killing the American Dream. We see that our kids are being left behind. And we know giving government more power and money will make it worse.

We are screaming for help. We voted for Donald Trump out of self-defense.

But the groups marching in Charlottesville last weekend were not Republican, conservative, or “Trump voters.”

They were KKK white supremacists and extremists. Those kinds of people are nutcases. As my butcher dad would say, “They have a screw loose.” Anyone who marches at night, in the South, with torches, is clearly mentally ill and dangerous to all of us -- including Trump voters.

But what the hell does all of that have to do with President Trump? Or 63 million Trump voters?

Trump didn't endorse them -- although that's certainly what the media wants us to believe. Trump didn't apologize for them. Trump just pointed out that extremism on both sides is unacceptable. That hate on both sides is unacceptable. That racism on both sides is unacceptable. And that if the leftist marchers were in fact carrying deadly weapons (such as baseball bats, blowtorches and soda cans filled with concrete) they were to blame too.

Does pointing that out make someone a neo-Nazi?

Because neither Obama nor Hillary were ever blamed by the mainstream media for violence coming from leftist groups like antifa or Black Lives Matter. Neither Obama nor Hillary were ever blamed for disgusting signs displayed at leftist events. Neither were blamed for the disgraceful things said at those leftist events. People chanted "death to pigs (police) and “death to Israel” at leftist events all theme. Yet the media never blamed Obama or Hillary.

Not only were they not blamed for what extreme left activists said or did...but I never saw the media blame Obama for not condemning the radical, extreme and disgusting things done and said at those protests.

Many of my friends are cops. They saw it all. They couldn't believe that leftist activists wanted to murder cops, Jews, and...President Trump. They say those things openly. They have signs saying it. Yet no Democratic Party leader ever condemned them for their foul-mouthed behavior, threats of violence, or racism.

And isn't it remarkable, the media never said a word. No blame for Obama. No blame for Hillary. No blame for Bernie for not condemning leftist extremism.

By the way, I’m Jewish. The KKK hates me too. They want to kill me just as much as any black American. Like I said, they are sick in the head. The people marching in Charlottesville were a combination of brainless and toothless. They are missing a chromosome.

But they have nothing to do with me. Yes, I'm a Trump supporter. The KKK and Neo Nazi battle is not our battle. I’m not on their team. Their racist anger has nothing to do with typical middle class Trump voters’ anger at taxes, regulations, lax illegal immigration laws, big government and the IRS. That small crowd of demented losers marching in Charlottesville had nothing to do with President Trump's victory.

Any attempt by the biased liberal media to tie a KKK march in Charlottesville with Trump and 63 million Trump voters is pure fraud and misrepresentation.

And then there was President Trump's response to Charlottesville -- and the media headlines excoriating him for criticizing extremism on both sides.

We've all witnessed hundreds of examples of hate, racism and violence by the left since Trump's election. We've seen leftist groups like antifa and Black Lives Matter chant about hate and death to Trump, police officers, Republicans, conservatives and Jews in Israel. Heck, we've seen half of Hollywood begging for Trump's assassination.

Don't you think President Trump has seen and heard all these death threats?

Why should extremists on the left get a pass? Why shouldn't President Trump (the man they threaten to murder) be allowed to point out that there are bad people on both sides?

On Twitter and Facebook, liberals by the thousands (per minute) threaten the assassination of Trump. Yet the president isn't allowed to point out the terrible extremism on both sides? The terrible divide on both sides? The terrible behavior on both sides? Why not?

Now we've seen one incident of extremism and violence from a group supposedly on the right. It's the first one I've seen, or heard of. And I study news for a living. I'd argue the KKK isn't on "the right." They aren't a political group. They are a hate group. They are mentally ill. Like many violent leftist demonstrators, they desperately need a straight-jacket, rubber room and a hug from mommy.

To point that out, is not an endorsement of the KKK.

Donald Trump’s response was 100 percent correct. Hate, racism and violence on either side -- left or right -- is heinous and unacceptable. There is nothing wrong with that.


Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, business owner, conservative commentator and best-selling conservative author. He is host of the nationally-syndicated “WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show.”

For more, visit his website: www.ROOTforAmerica.com.

 

[FollowTheWay]

Did 'good people' attend Charlottesville rally?

I’m going to tackle the ten-ton elephant in the room. Charlottesville. What a disgrace. What a tragedy.

But what the hell does it have to do with President Donald Trump? The answer is nothing. Let me explain.

I truly am the expert on what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend. Because I wrote the book -- literally.

My 2016 book "Angry White Male" explained, analyzed and predicted the entire Trump phenomenon and election victory- when no one else saw it coming.

As a card-carrying S.O.B. (son of a butcher), I have a unique understanding of butchers, bakers and candlestick makers. I grew up in a blue-collar New York neighborhood of cops, firemen, nurses, mechanics, and small business owners.

I love the middle class and small business owners (who are America's upper middle class). I understand them. I understand how important they are to the U.S. economy.

Pew Research reports the American middle class is composed of four groups and all of them are predominantly white.

My book explained in detail why the middle class overwhelmingly supported Trump. It was titled “Angry White Male” simply because the American middle class is primarily white. And as a kid who grew up white, male and middle class, I have a unique understanding of the hopes, dreams and fears of that specific group.

The typical Trump voter is NOT a racist. I was opening speaker at all six Donald Trump campaign events in Las Vegas. I never saw or heard one instance of racism at any Trump event...nor at any of the hundreds of Tea Party events that I spoke at across America from 2009 to 2015.

The anger of almost every white middle class Trump voter has nothing to do with racism...and everything to do with economics. It’s about financial survival, not race. The middle class is being targeted for extinction. It is being persecuted and wiped off the face of the earth by liberal/progressive/socialist economic policies.

The middle class and small business owners are not concerned with the color of anyone's skin. They are concerned with big taxes, big regulations, big government, illegal immigration and using ObamaCare, climate change, and government agencies like the EPA and the IRS to kill our jobs and redistribute our hard-earned income. Those are the reasons middle class voters are angry. Those are the reasons 63 million Americans chose Donald Trump. Not race.

We are fighting for our survival. We know liberal big government policies are destroying our jobs, incomes, assets, opportunity and mobility. We know liberal big government policies are killing the American Dream. We see that our kids are being left behind. And we know giving government more power and money will make it worse.

We are screaming for help. We voted for Donald Trump out of self-defense.

But the groups marching in Charlottesville last weekend were not Republican, conservative, or “Trump voters.”

They were KKK white supremacists and extremists. Those kinds of people are nutcases. As my butcher dad would say, “They have a screw loose.” Anyone who marches at night, in the South, with torches, is clearly mentally ill and dangerous to all of us -- including Trump voters.

But what the hell does all of that have to do with President Trump? Or 63 million Trump voters?

Trump didn't endorse them -- although that's certainly what the media wants us to believe. Trump didn't apologize for them. Trump just pointed out that extremism on both sides is unacceptable. That hate on both sides is unacceptable. That racism on both sides is unacceptable. And that if the leftist marchers were in fact carrying deadly weapons (such as baseball bats, blowtorches and soda cans filled with concrete) they were to blame too.

Does pointing that out make someone a neo-Nazi?

Because neither Obama nor Hillary were ever blamed by the mainstream media for violence coming from leftist groups like antifa or Black Lives Matter. Neither Obama nor Hillary were ever blamed for disgusting signs displayed at leftist events. Neither were blamed for the disgraceful things said at those leftist events. People chanted "death to pigs (police) and “death to Israel” at leftist events all theme. Yet the media never blamed Obama or Hillary.

Not only were they not blamed for what extreme left activists said or did...but I never saw the media blame Obama for not condemning the radical, extreme and disgusting things done and said at those protests.

Many of my friends are cops. They saw it all. They couldn't believe that leftist activists wanted to murder cops, Jews, and...President Trump. They say those things openly. They have signs saying it. Yet no Democratic Party leader ever condemned them for their foul-mouthed behavior, threats of violence, or racism.

And isn't it remarkable, the media never said a word. No blame for Obama. No blame for Hillary. No blame for Bernie for not condemning leftist extremism.

By the way, I’m Jewish. The KKK hates me too. They want to kill me just as much as any black American. Like I said, they are sick in the head. The people marching in Charlottesville were a combination of brainless and toothless. They are missing a chromosome.

But they have nothing to do with me. Yes, I'm a Trump supporter. The KKK and Neo Nazi battle is not our battle. I’m not on their team. Their racist anger has nothing to do with typical middle class Trump voters’ anger at taxes, regulations, lax illegal immigration laws, big government and the IRS. That small crowd of demented losers marching in Charlottesville had nothing to do with President Trump's victory.

Any attempt by the biased liberal media to tie a KKK march in Charlottesville with Trump and 63 million Trump voters is pure fraud and misrepresentation.

And then there was President Trump's response to Charlottesville -- and the media headlines excoriating him for criticizing extremism on both sides.

We've all witnessed hundreds of examples of hate, racism and violence by the left since Trump's election. We've seen leftist groups like antifa and Black Lives Matter chant about hate and death to Trump, police officers, Republicans, conservatives and Jews in Israel. Heck, we've seen half of Hollywood begging for Trump's assassination.

Don't you think President Trump has seen and heard all these death threats?

Why should extremists on the left get a pass? Why shouldn't President Trump (the man they threaten to murder) be allowed to point out that there are bad people on both sides?

On Twitter and Facebook, liberals by the thousands (per minute) threaten the assassination of Trump. Yet the president isn't allowed to point out the terrible extremism on both sides? The terrible divide on both sides? The terrible behavior on both sides? Why not?

Now we've seen one incident of extremism and violence from a group supposedly on the right. It's the first one I've seen, or heard of. And I study news for a living. I'd argue the KKK isn't on "the right." They aren't a political group. They are a hate group. They are mentally ill. Like many violent leftist demonstrators, they desperately need a straight-jacket, rubber room and a hug from mommy.

To point that out, is not an endorsement of the KKK.

Donald Trump’s response was 100 percent correct. Hate, racism and violence on either side -- left or right -- is heinous and unacceptable. There is nothing wrong with that.


Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, business owner, conservative commentator and best-selling conservative author. He is host of the nationally-syndicated “WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show.”

For more, visit his website: www.ROOTforAmerica.com.

 

[FollowTheWay]

The author is correct in saying that the real fundamental cause of middle class anger is economic. But citing the culprits as the usual ones, the liberal Democrats, is not. The real problem is inequality of wealth especially in the U.S. but also in most other countries.

“Our economy is in very serious trouble. Ten or fifteen years from now, the standard of living of our average citizen may actually be lower than it is today,” writes Steve Slavin, author of the new book, The Great American Economy: How Inefficiency Broke It and What We Can Do To Fix It. “Large swaths of the suburbs will be slums, and tens of millions of Americans will have joined the permanent underclass. There will be three separate Americas—the rich and near rich, an economically downscaled middle and working class, and a very large poor population.”

With a median household income of $40,581, millennials earn 20 percent less than boomers did at the same stage of life, despite being better educated, according to a new analysis of Federal Reserve data by the advocacy group Young Invincibles.’”

These angry whites are being bypassed by structural changes in the economy that are narrowing their options. Needless to say, most people in dire straits do not embrace violence and racism. But it seems the heart of their grievances appear to be based on class frustrations, not race. If the white marchers want to blame someone, they ought to point their fingers at the wealthy whites on Wall Street and in Washington.

Why Can't White Supremacists Confront the Fact That the Source of Their Economic Problems Is White Economic Elites?

"Income inequality in America has risen sharply since 1976. Economists and pundits point to multiple causes—globalization and competition from low-wage countries; growing educational disparities that particularly affect men and minorities; technological changes that reward the highly skilled; decline of labor unions; changes in corporate culture that place stock price and earnings above employees; free market philosophy and the rise of winner-take-all economics; households with high-income couples; lower rates of marriage and of intact families; high incarceration levels; immigration of low-skilled individuals; income tax and capital gains tax cuts and other conservative economic and tax policies; deregulation; and decreased welfare and antipoverty spending coupled with redistribution programs that disproportionately benefit the elderly."

Blue Rider Press http://tinyurl.com/ybsvzfk4

 

[FollowTheWay]

But the problem gets much worse when you look at a comparison of the mega-rich versus everyone else.

"The jump in inequality is due to a small number of people, mostly business executives, who make huge amounts of money. They are the Mega Rich, the top .1 percent in income, who averaged $6.1 million in income in 2014. The Merely Rich are the rest of the 1 percent. It’s the Mega Rich, not the Merely Rich, who drive inequality. (I’m a member of the Merely Rich, so don’t blame me.)

As shown in the graph [that follows]... between 1980 and 2014 the average real income of the Mega Rich has nearly quadrupled, increasing by 381 percent. Over the same period, the Merely Rich doubled their income while the bottom 90 percent lost ground, suffering a 3 percent decline.

The Mega Rich are getting mega richer. Their average household made 113 times as much as the typical American household in 2014. In 1980, this number was 47. In 2014, the 115,000 Mega Rich households had as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. They now hold 22 percent of the nation’s wealth, nearly double their 1995 share."

“There’s been class warfare going on for the last twenty years,” said Warren Buffett, “and my class has won.”

Blue Rider Press The Mega Rich Are Getting Mega Richer: A Former CEO Exposes the Corruption Behind Their Obscene Paychecks

As Buffett famously admitted, his secretary pays a larger percentage of income tax than he does because of the bias of the tax system for the rich.

 

[AwesomeMachine]

Excellent OP and rebuttal!

Anger is caused by perceived injustice, which is caused by failure of whoever or whatever to meet individual expectations. Unfortunately, creating false expectations and then producing contrived evidence to support their legitimacy, and how these false expectations have not been met, is trivially easy when dealing with a populace devoid of truth.

But establishing a reference for truth in an emotionally charged culture is like searching for Jim Morrison in a rural Chinese opium den! Youth are especially recalcitrant to truth, because it involves virtue, and vice is much easier during its infancy. The values of those in their 20s in the US is far removed from the previous generation.

That fact is best evidenced by rebellion against marriage and family, and removing marital relations from God's intended context of creation, into a context of personal satisfaction and recreation.

A society that has rejected children in favor of economic accomplishment is a society that hates the beauty it creates; a society of people who reject life in their own image; a society that rejects itself.

But perhaps this is better illustrated by the systemic disease affecting mankind, Homegaciditis. Let's look at the etymology. From Latin, homo, man; from Greek, omega, last, final, end; from Latin, cide, killer; from Latin, itis, illness, disease, pathology. Definition, literally: man's final killer disease; the disease causing the human race to commit genocide against itself.

Some of the more recognizable symptoms of homegaciditis include:

increased violence
rampant immorality
rejection of God's plan for marriage
wealth and consumerism as a goal unto itself
bitter political division
rioting
institutionalized killing
fear and insecurity
adoption of the minimum legal requirement as the ideal standard of moral conduct
division, contention, strife, quarrel, self righteousness, frustration, arrogance, apathy
defining morality after the fact by the consequences suffered
economic performance and efficiency as the sole criteria in decision making
family relationships defined solely by statutory law and scientific principles
civil divorce
paganism, the occult, and the rise of non-Christian religions
activist courts of law
agenda-driven press
isolation, faction, intolerance, rage
truth defined as hate speech; hatred of truth, intentional ignorance
addiction/mental-illness epidemic
economic woe
global economic collapse
famine, pestilence, war, anarchy, chaos
global nuclear holocaust--Yes, God made creation so that everything that refused to do His will, while also refusing the saving grace of Jesus Christ, would be annihilated from existence in testimony to God's righteousness.

It's not too late to adopt the love of Jesus Christ as a cure for homegaciditis! That's why He was sent! The love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ are the only things that can cure mankind.

 

[Reynolds]

But the problem gets much worse when you look at a comparison of the mega-rich versus everyone else.

"The jump in inequality is due to a small number of people, mostly business executives, who make huge amounts of money. They are the Mega Rich, the top .1 percent in income, who averaged $6.1 million in income in 2014. The Merely Rich are the rest of the 1 percent. It’s the Mega Rich, not the Merely Rich, who drive inequality. (I’m a member of the Merely Rich, so don’t blame me.)

As shown in the graph [that follows]... between 1980 and 2014 the average real income of the Mega Rich has nearly quadrupled, increasing by 381 percent. Over the same period, the Merely Rich doubled their income while the bottom 90 percent lost ground, suffering a 3 percent decline.

The Mega Rich are getting mega richer. Their average household made 113 times as much as the typical American household in 2014. In 1980, this number was 47. In 2014, the 115,000 Mega Rich households had as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. They now hold 22 percent of the nation’s wealth, nearly double their 1995 share."

“There’s been class warfare going on for the last twenty years,” said Warren Buffett, “and my class has won.”

Blue Rider Press The Mega Rich Are Getting Mega Richer: A Former CEO Exposes the Corruption Behind Their Obscene Paychecks

As Buffett famously admitted, his secretary pays a larger percentage of income tax than he does because of the bias of the tax system for the rich.

Have the Democrats done anything to fix the problem? Most of the Megarich are large Democratic donors.

 

[LowOiL]

Class envy .... those durn rich fellows just getting richer and richer...

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

When half the world that makes less that 2 dollars a day sees that it is ok to covert your modest little slice of the pie, perhaps you will realize that perhaps that wasn't the best lesson in the world to convey.

Gee, Jesus was right again. Envy does not play good with others, and there will always be rich and poor. Don't let it define your happiness.

 

[carpro]

The middle class is being targeted for extinction. It is being persecuted and wiped off the face of the earth by liberal/progressive/socialist economic policies.

And there you have it.

Trump is the evidence of the middle class fighting back.

 

[Calminian]

Trump hit is out of the park last night. We finally have a president willing to defend himself and hit back at the media. This might have been his most effective media beatdown to date.

As unjust as the media has been in the last few days, if the injustice is not exposed, they still win. Last night Trump put the whole fake issue to bed. God bless him.

Here's the entire rally, if any missed it.

 

[Yeshua1]

The author is correct in saying that the real fundamental cause of middle class anger is economic. But citing the culprits as the usual ones, the liberal Democrats, is not. The real problem is inequality of wealth especially in the U.S. but also in most other countries.

“Our economy is in very serious trouble. Ten or fifteen years from now, the standard of living of our average citizen may actually be lower than it is today,” writes Steve Slavin, author of the new book, The Great American Economy: How Inefficiency Broke It and What We Can Do To Fix It. “Large swaths of the suburbs will be slums, and tens of millions of Americans will have joined the permanent underclass. There will be three separate Americas—the rich and near rich, an economically downscaled middle and working class, and a very large poor population.”

With a median household income of $40,581, millennials earn 20 percent less than boomers did at the same stage of life, despite being better educated, according to a new analysis of Federal Reserve data by the advocacy group Young Invincibles.’”

These angry whites are being bypassed by structural changes in the economy that are narrowing their options. Needless to say, most people in dire straits do not embrace violence and racism. But it seems the heart of their grievances appear to be based on class frustrations, not race. If the white marchers want to blame someone, they ought to point their fingers at the wealthy whites on Wall Street and in Washington.

Why Can't White Supremacists Confront the Fact That the Source of Their Economic Problems Is White Economic Elites?

"Income inequality in America has risen sharply since 1976. Economists and pundits point to multiple causes—globalization and competition from low-wage countries; growing educational disparities that particularly affect men and minorities; technological changes that reward the highly skilled; decline of labor unions; changes in corporate culture that place stock price and earnings above employees; free market philosophy and the rise of winner-take-all economics; households with high-income couples; lower rates of marriage and of intact families; high incarceration levels; immigration of low-skilled individuals; income tax and capital gains tax cuts and other conservative economic and tax policies; deregulation; and decreased welfare and antipoverty spending coupled with redistribution programs that disproportionately benefit the elderly."

Blue Rider Press http://tinyurl.com/ybsvzfk4

Capitalism is not perfect economic system, but it IS the very best one that we have, when done right!

And we CAN and MUST lay much of the blame for out current woes on wealth and stagnation on the principles of ole big government, the liberal Democrats themselves, who desire to have the wealth evenly spread out and doled out by Big govt, in order to make sure that we all have the correct"group think"...
What gets LOST in all of this is that bigger taxes and having the govt try tp spread around the wealth causes this to happen, as there is no way the govt can tax and spread itself to be a blessing to all citizens...

And last time the facts were known, why is it not stated that there were more wealthy Dems than republicans, more wealthy liberals than conservatives in this nation, or does that truth not meet "fake news" agenda?

 

[FollowTheWay]

Have the Democrats done anything to fix the problem? Most of the Megarich are large Democratic donors.

This is Forbes discussion of the richest families and their political affiliation:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katias...milies-republicans-or-democrats/#384b16ff3e83

They say that of America's 50 richest families 56% are Republicans, 14% are Democrats and 30% are both (split between family members).

Here are the political affiliations of America’s 10 richest families, ranked according to wealth:

1. Walton – Republican

2. Koch – Republican

3. Mars – Republican

4. Cargill-MacMillan – Republican

5. Johnson (Fidelity) – Republican

6. Hearst – Republican

7. Cox – Democrat

8. Pritzker – Both

9. Johnson (S.C. Johnson) – Republican

10. Duncan – Republican

 

[FollowTheWay]

Capitalism is not perfect economic system, but it IS the very best one that we have, when done right!

And we CAN and MUST lay much of the blame for out current woes on wealth and stagnation on the principles of ole big government, the liberal Democrats themselves, who desire to have the wealth evenly spread out and doled out by Big govt, in order to make sure that we all have the correct"group think"...
What gets LOST in all of this is that bigger taxes and having the govt try tp spread around the wealth causes this to happen, as there is no way the govt can tax and spread itself to be a blessing to all citizens...

And last time the facts were known, why is it not stated that there were more wealthy Dems than republicans, more wealthy liberals than conservatives in this nation, or does that truth not meet "fake news" agenda?

See my post on Forbes analysis of the political affiliation of the richest people in America. The majority is definitely NOT Democrat.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Trump hit is out of the park last night. We finally have a president willing to defend himself and hit back at the media. This might have been his most effective media beatdown to date.

As unjust as the media has been in the last few days, if the injustice is not exposed, they still win. Last night Trump put the whole fake issue to bed. God bless him.

Here's the entire rally, if any missed it.

I did on purpose. Thanks anyway.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

See my post on Forbes analysis of the political affiliation of the richest people in America. The majority is definitely NOT Democrat.

How many are independent? thanks

 

[Reynolds]

This is Forbes discussion of the richest families and their political affiliation:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katias...milies-republicans-or-democrats/#384b16ff3e83

They say that of America's 50 richest families 56% are Republicans, 14% are Democrats and 30% are both (split between family members).

Here are the political affiliations of America’s 10 richest families, ranked according to wealth:

1. Walton – Republican

2. Koch – Republican

3. Mars – Republican

4. Cargill-MacMillan – Republican

5. Johnson (Fidelity) – Republican

6. Hearst – Republican

7. Cox – Democrat

8. Pritzker – Both

9. Johnson (S.C. Johnson) – Republican

10. Duncan – Republican

Depends on how you tabulate it.
Which Party Is the Party of the 1 Percent?

 

[LowOiL]

The top political donor in 2016 was Thomas & F. & Kathryn Ann Steyer...

$91,141,639 all to democrats....

Only 1 out of the top 6 amount donors gave anything to Republicans.... the other 5 were all to democrats....

Source: OpenSecrets.org

 

[JohnDeereFan]

Did 'good people' attend Charlottesville rally?

I’m going to tackle the ten-ton elephant in the room. Charlottesville. What a disgrace. What a tragedy.

But what the hell does it have to do with President Donald Trump? The answer is nothing. Let me explain.....

Interesting that when I said "What the...", I was given an infraction and told that such profanity would not be tolderated here.

 

[Revmitchell]

What I find interesting is that rich dems will give all kinds of money to their favorite politician but give little to nothing to actual people in need.

 

[Reynolds]

What I find interesting is that rich dems will give all kinds of money to their favorite politician but give little to nothing to actual people in need.

They see the govt. as the source to meet the needs of the people. It is actually very consistent with their Communistic thinking.

 

[Revmitchell]

They see the govt. as the source to meet the needs of the people. It is actually very consistent with their Communistic thinking.

I know what they think. It doesn't stop them from giving personally. What it does say is they do not really care about helping people.