The 1 percent’s midterms scam: Why it’s not about which party wins in ’14

[kpete]

SATURDAY, APR 26, 2014 03:15 AM PDT
With a rich Congress, White House and federal courts, here's why one constituency is going to win – no matter what
MICHAEL LIND


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Politicians in the United States tend to be vastly better off than the people they represent. They are wealthier, more educated, and more likely to come from white-collar jobs… If millionaires were a political party, that party would make up just three percent of the country, but it would have a majority in the House of Representatives, a filibuster-proof super-majority in the Senate, a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court, and a man in the White House. If working-class Americans — people employed in manual-labor and service-industry jobs — were a political party, that party would have made up more than half of the country since the start of the twentieth century, but legislators from that party (those who last worked in blue-collar jobs before getting into politics) would never have held more than two percent of the seats in Congress.

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the rest:
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/26/the_1_percents_midterms_scam_why_its_not_about_which_party_wins_in_14/

[L0oniX]

1. Winner of the No Shit Sherlock award.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. The comfort of the rich depends on a abundant suppy of the poor. - Voltaire

[hfojvt]

3. meaning what?

a) don't bother to vote - since millionaires win anyway
b) if you do vote, it doesn't matter if you vote Democrat or Republican - since millionaires win anyway.

Sorry, but that's horse excrement.

The Democratic Party, I have said repeatedly here, does a piss poor job of representing the working class

but STILL

Republican control of the house led to the invasion of Iraq
George W. Bush being President and having his own party in control of Congress meant the Bush tax cuts
Democratic control of the House in 2006 meant an increase in the minimum wage.

The hell it doesn't matter which party wins.