The Party of the Rich

We all know that the Democratic Party is the party of privilege. That is to say, Democrats believe that people cannot survive in the world without special privileges granted by the government, whether it is minimum wages, tenure for professors, civil service exemption from the employment-at-will contract, or economic regulation.
But now we must face the fact that the Democratic Party is just flat-out the party of the rich. Read what Peter Schweizer has to say. Let’s lay it out in bulleted form.

• “Thus far in 2006, 17 of the top 25 contributors to 527 advocacy groups are funding liberal/Democratic causes, including liberal billionaires George Soros, and Peter Lewis.”
  
• In 2002, people who gave a million dollars or more “gave $36 million to the Democrats and only $3 million to Republicans, a 12:1 ratio.”
  
• In 2000, “lawyers gave $182 million (75 percent to Democrats) and Hollywood donated $32 million (70 percent to Democrats).”
  

Of course, eevil Big Oil gives about $25 million a year, “80 percent of it to the GOP.” That is almost as much as Hollywood gives to Democrats. Outrageous.

Then there are the rich Democratic office holders. And it’s not just rich Ted Kennedy we are talking about.

• The United States Senate, we know, is full of millionaires. “Of the five U.S. senators worth more than $25 million (John Kerry, Herb, Kohl, John Rockefeller, Dianne Feinstein, and Lincoln Chafee) according to Roll Call, only Chafee is a Republican.”
  

And some Republicans are unwilling to consider Lincoln Chafee as a real Republican, given his liberal voting record.

You can look at it this way. The Democratic Party is the party of the rich and the poor, people who don’t need, or don’t expect the economy to work for them.

The Republican Party, on the other hand as Camille Paglia puts it, is centered on “small-businessmen and very practical people who correctly see that it's job creation and wealth creation that sustain an economy.”

They are people who need a vibrant and level playing field upon which to develop their talents and their skills. That’s why they are Republicans.

But here’s the kicker. If you have a level playing field in the economy and low tax rates it makes it easier for the small businessman to grow his business and challenge the super rich, the Kennedys, the Kerrys, the Rockefellers, and the Chafees for the choice locations in Aspen, the houses in the Hamptons, the rich young heiresses, and all the other loot that the Democratic super rich enjoy.

And we can’t have that now, can we. Why, those coarse Republican businessmen are nothing more than jumped-up barrow boys.