(12-21-2017 07:08 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  I was once told in an online discussion in an article, that political beliefs should be based on ones income. The lower the income, Democrat. Higher the income Republican. I believe that is a load of crap. Income shouldn't dictate ones political beliefs. For me it depends upon the issue. I lean more to the right. Overall I'm very disappointed by how Republicans have been handling things when they control the government. They have been more talk and no action. I will not vote democrat, I've seen them in action. I was registered as an independent, but in NM you must be a Democrat or Republican to vote in primaries. In 2016 I re registered as a Republican to vote in the primaries.

No party cares about the American people IMO. Its like the American People are customers in a walmart. The Democrat employees are outside trying to get people into the store, not using the front proper entrance. The Republican employees are on a brake. Neither is helping the customers. Occasionally one from either side actually appears in the store, but quickly leave when they get overwhelmed by too many customers.

Both sides are full of crap.

That trope is political propaganda

Go look up average income by state. Match that to the electoral college last election. My recollection is the 8-11 states with the highest per capita income voted for Hillary.

If you subscribe to the idea that all people vote self-interest rather than some ideological reasons (I think we vote tribally but that's for another time), people living in densely populated areas who have wealth tend to vote Democrat. So the question becomes what is the self-interest they are voting? Maybe they are voting to not have people living on sidewalks pissing on their building or vote out of fear that the poor will rise up and toss them out of their home.