Americans still hate the rich, according to yet another poll. And not just godless secular liberals! Pew’s major Trends in American Values poll shows class resentments bridging the partisan divide: “Majorities
in all educational and income groups agree that ‘today it’s really true
that the rich just get richer while the poor get poorer.’ In the
current survey, 76% of the public agrees with this statement, about the
same as the 74% that agreed in 1987.”
Even
the moderate pundit crowd’s beloved independents agree: Our ruling
classes are worthless parasites. A mere 22 percent of “swing voters”
“admire the rich.” (How many Romney supporters “admire the rich,” you
ask? Thirty-eight percent. No one likes rich people.)
As Elspeth Reeve puts it, succinctly and correctly, “swing
voters are not libertarians.” They’re also not “socially liberal and
fiscally conservative,” like the vast majority of our well-off media
elites tend to consider themselves. READ MORE
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