When the poor rejects liberal ideas, the liberals play the Wealth Card:
The wealthiest Americans care passionately about things like financial debt and budgets. What do most Americans put at the top of their list of concerns, according to polls from Gallup, Pew and others — Federal debt and budgets — not access to health care, or job training, or clean water, or gun control, or climate disruptions, or access to higher education, or efforts to alleviate poverty.
The two political scientists, Martin Gilens of Princeton and Benjamin Page of Northwestern, organized a team of researchers to study 1,779 survey questions between 1981 and 2002 on major public policy issues and broke them down by income levels and how organized interest groups saw their policy preferences enacted.
The conclusion? The wealthy move national policy, and average Americans are effectively powerless.
Read the Entire Article Here: http://www.livescience.com/45235-american-oligarchy.html
Bloomberg is a billionaire, yet they’re claiming that the American people don’t support gun control because the rich don’t want them to? How absurd. The rich come in my flavors, some are libertarian (Koch Brothers), some are entrepreneurs, some are socialists (Soros), and some are downright fascists (Bloomberg).
The American people are not mindless drones doing the bidding of the rich. I agree with the Koch Brothers, but I don’t work for them. I voted for Romney because I believe in free enterprise, not because Romney paid me to vote for him. He didn’t. Liberals voted for Obama because they like big government, not because Obama got a lot of money from limousine liberals, that’s irrelevant.
Furthermore, most Americans aspire to be rich, that’s why they watch Million Dollar Condo, Real Housewives of the OC, Flipping Out, Flipping Vegas… That’s why they buy Powerball, Mega Millions, go to college or a trade school, take chances, etc.
The section-8 class, the disability collectors, they’re the ones dependent on government, the rest of us are dependent on ourselves.
P.S. The definition of an Oligarchy is Russia during the reign of the Czar. Those times are long gone, today a Russian oligarch lives in fear of Putin jailing him or taking away his fortune. Here in America we don’t have oligarchs, we have rich people, poor people, middle class people, and for the most part we get along, at least we do when Occupy Wall Street isn’t around.