Why do educated, socially liberal, wealthy voters still choose the GOP in many areas of large cities of Texas? (Houston: homes, live)

[erwint.2021]

Originally Posted by Andtheblack

How will Republicans help working class keep more of their hard earned money? Like this?


The Christmas present Trump promised the middle class turned out to be a trinket. The tax cut’s benefits to middle-wage earners worked out to about $65 a month, according to numbers crunched by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. As passed, the income tax cuts will begin to phase out in 2025, and by 2027 many working-class wage earners will face a higher tax burden. Republicans structured the law this way to hold the projected cost of the bill below a $1.5 trillion threshold that allowed for Senate passage with just 50 votes. Future Congresses, they argued, would of course act to prevent any tax hike on the working class. Key to note, however: Corporations were spared any similar anxiety about their future tax burden. The corporate cuts don’t expire under this law.

In marketing his tax bill, Trump made wild promises about indirect benefits of his giveaway, including that the “huge tax cut will be rocket fuel for our economy,” driving GDP growth as high as six percent and boosting wages between $4,000 and $9,000 a year. It was familiar nonsense. Far from representing a break from the economic policies of the old-line GOP, Trump’s tax cut built on the ruinous legacy of “trickle down” economics championed by George W. Bush and Reagan. “It’s a lie,” says Blyth, “and the lie is that if you give rich people these tax cuts, investment will skyrocket and [new wealth will] trickle down to everyone else. It never works.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...ality-1080345/

Republicans are the most confusing, they are pro-corporate in their policy, anti-corporate in their rhetoric. They are pro-college in their personal lives (Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz), and anti-college in their rhetoric. They are pro-America at NFL games, and anti-America at the Olympics.

[potatocoins]

Originally Posted by erwint.2021

Republicans are the most confusing, they are pro-corporate in their policy, anti-corporate in their rhetoric. They are pro-college in their personal lives (Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz), and anti-college in their rhetoric. They are pro-America at NFL games, and anti-America at the Olympics.

What's confusing about it? There are 70million+ people who voted Republican, so of course they aren't going to all be one homogenous group.

[Raider Scott]

Some here are expecting all "R: voters to be carbon copies of each other.


This proves something I have always thought about the left leaning people I know.



Many really do not know many right leaning people at all. Otherwise, you'd know we are all fairly different and do not vote or think in lock step.


Some are driven by religious dogma, some are social conservatives, some are fiscal conservatives, some (like me) tend to be more libertarian in their leanings.


When you post things like "well....is the what you hear on Fox News?" or other nonsense, this does NOT make you look smart. What if I told you I do not even have a cable package the CARRIES that channel?


The left loves to say THEY are a big tent group and maybe that is true...but why is it so hard for them to think that maybe the right is ALSO a big tent and not everyone thinks alike?


Not everyone on the right worships Ronald Reagan or is a fan of Trump.


And for the person amazed that conservatives are pro-America at the NFL games and anti at the Olympics, there was no difference there. We simply did not care that the kneeling and protesting types lost. If you do not like a country...why represent them in a world competition? This is not a totally invalid belief, if you think about it.

[Raider Scott]

Originally Posted by Andtheblack

Funny, but I had the same thought when watching Trump genuflect before Putin in Helsinki. That was the most embarrassing performance by an American president in my lifetime.

Actually, Hillary handing the Russkies that "reset button" gift with re-set mis-spelled was another wonderful moment in Russkie diplomacy. LOL

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by erwint.2021

Why is it that wealthy, socially liberal, moderate voters still choose the GOP in many elections in places like Oak Lawn of Dallas, North Dallas, Westside Houston, North San Antonio, West of Austin?

Very simple ...


Rich people vote conservative
Poor people vote liberal

[erwint.2021]

Originally Posted by Dopo

Very simple ...


Rich people vote conservative
Poor people vote liberal

This is completely false. Wall Street backed Clinton and Biden.

[Raider Scott]

Originally Posted by erwint.2021

This is completely false. Wall Street backed Clinton and Biden.

Yes and Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are huge democrat supporters as is most of Hollywood.

[pbjyum]

Originally Posted by Dopo

Very simple ...
Rich people vote conservative
Poor people vote liberal

You have any data to back this up?

[pbjyum]

Originally Posted by Gaylord_Focker

Everyone else does get it taken from them. So why vote for the part that is doing the taking?

They both do the taking. It may blow your mind to find out that Biden and the rest of the "Moderate" democrats are actually republicans lol. Make no mistake, we are a 1 party country when you look at policy history.

[H'ton]

Originally Posted by pbjyum

You have any data to back this up?

Poor uneducated Minorities are typically liberal
Young urban ideologist professionals (all races) with little success, or experience, typically are liberal


Poor uneducated whites, especially WASPS, typically vote Conservative
Young traditional suburbanite professionals (usually white) with little success, or experience, typically are conservative.


Older baby boomers who were once on the front lines of the Liberal movement int the 60s are now magically repulsed by it and vote Conservative. (this one still confuses me)


Middle age professionals (all races) in the suburbs typically vote Conservative.
Middle age professionals (all races) in the city typically vote liberal


Poor older people (all races) is a toss up



Of course, there are exceptions to these rules but both the Ds and Rs know these are their base.