Ok Democrats, riddle me this?

Question

Do most if not all Democrats assume that all Republicans are rich?

Are you stereotyping?

It seems as though it's either that or Republicans are some hillybilly, gun totin hunter who drives a Ford.




Not that I'm trying to taint answers, but I'm a Republican with a college degree in Criminal Justice and I'm not rich by any means. I perform a social job that most would not want to do by working in a maximum security penitentary in Texas.

Irony, that's why I said, "most, if not all."

Fish; Miller lite actually. :)

Answer 1

Of course nobody thinks that. it's fairly easy to figure out that if only rich people voted Republican they'd never win.

What I do think is that there's no good reason for anyone except the very rich to vote Republican. Middle class people who do so because they think Republicans will lower their taxes, or Democrats will confiscate their guns, or crime will go down, or almost any other reason people vote Republican for, are generally being suckered. And before you pop out your next stereotype, no, I don't think they're all stupid. I do think they're poorly informed, and any poll you look at that asks not what people believe but how much they actually know will prove that I'm right. Public policy is complex, figuring out how it impacts you is even more so, and most people don't study the issues closely enough to really understand what's going on.

Answer 2

Actually my opinion is that republicans are conservative, either fiscally or socially often both.. or play like they are. Republicans are defined by the ultra conservative right wing nut jobs just as we Democrats are defined by our loony socialist liberal left.

It is not stereotyping to see Republicans as the powerful rich, it’s recognizing the history of the party. I think up until the fifties the parties were defined by fiscal policy. The Republicans were blue collar America, the Democrats White collar America. Labor Unions backed Democrats and Corp management backed Republicans.

Since the Fifties the parties have become more influenced by social standards mostly unrelated to social class. Abortion, minority rights, religious influences, "unjust" war etc.

As the far outside fringes started to understand that their causes were best served and fought closer to the middle, communists joined the Democrats and the tea totting Prohibitionist party join the republicans as the Whig party had done a century earlier.

I don’t have the time or internet space to solidly demonstrate historically the individual virtues of the two parties or the shifts associated with both.. and that wasn’t the question anyway. I simply offer history as the reason many hold the stereotype to which the question refers.

The pendulum it seems has swung in the last 45 year to where the parties are less influenced by financial ideology and more by social concerns. George W Bush’s fiscal policies are certainly not conservative by historical values. He spends money like it was water. Republican and Democrat ideals alike are an evolution of thought. The pendulum may swing back or may continue to morph into some other set of diametrically opposed philosophies.

So my answer is no. At this very moment in time I believe it would be wrong to cast Republicans in a light as being the party of the rich, particularly considering men like Donald Trump and many other “well off” individuals are Democrats.

The closest might be to consider them the party of the organized rich or Corporate rich while the Democrats are led by the wildcat individual rich with left social agendas.

Answer 3

Well, you fit one of the stereotypes....well, two. 1) live in texas 2) in law enforcement (cops and military types are stereotyped as being republicans).

Now, define rich? If we say top 10% of the tax filers, then they certainly aren't all republicans.

There are rich and poor in both parties. More poor tend to be in Dem party though. Middle-class is probably more equal. Just look at how close the vote was in the country-- that'll prove that we are fairly evenly divided.

Answer 4

Not at all. There are Republicans of every income bracket. The commonality among Republicans is that they really don't go the extra mile to figure out the truth and they're selfish. I don't know how they could consider themselves American when they're constantly saying they don't care about fellow countrymen. They would rather see their neighbors house burned to the ground then pay taxes to keep firetrucks running. You see this in their approach to entitlement programs, to equipping the military, to rescuing survivors of hurricane Katrina, and how they always choose the side of the corporations over the individual.

If this country is divided right now, it's divided by Republicans. All Democrats want to do is give you bastards free health care and keep our troops from getting shot by both sides in the Iraqi Civil War.

Answer 5

I don't think Republicans are rich....I was mistaken for a Republican because I was seen to have $$ however, I am neither. I choose not to pick a side because I have different opinions with both groups and also agree with both groups. How can one side be always on that side when it comes to opinions?? Seriously, are you machines, robots all programmed alike?

Answer 6

To some people you might be rich, and i bet you do have a gun. I'm not sure if you drive a ford and hunt but if your a republican I'm sure you do lol jk.

Answer 7

Aren't you stereotyping by saying that all democrats think that republicans are rich? Do you think all Germans are Nazis, and that all Arabs are terrorists, too? >:(

Answer 8

The smart ones are rich...the rest are dumb sheep following the herd.

Answer 9

no. i don't think that. there are alott of middle-class republican suburban-dwellers. but they're wrong.

Answer 10

R.I.C.H. as in retarded, incompetent,corrupt,hateful?!