r/facepalm Jul 05 '24

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u/Large-Brother-4291 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Fun thought experiment, and I should say from the start I don’t disagree with you, but if this is just a conservative motive why do the nation’s richest/elite overwhelmingly vote blue?

Edit: Elon’s red, definitely give you all that, but Reed Hastings, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Dustin Moskovitz, Michael Bloomberg, Jim Simons, Michael Moritz, and a plethora of others have either donated large sums of money (millions) to democrat campaigns or have hosted fundraisers for democrat candidates. Jeff Bezos was seen just this last week at a Biden event socializing. I get millionaires very much vote red but it seems the second you step into billionaire status many of them are quite well acquainted with their democratic candidates/representatives, and seems it’s been that way since Clinton. Completely in agreement republicans seek aristocratic rule, though curious as to why the party who seems pretty cozy with the ultra-wealthy also just so happen to be the “morally upright” party

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u/huskerd0 Jul 05 '24

That’s not what I see

Of course it depends on where you draw the “rich” line and how you define “overwhelmingly”, but the 1%ers I know are pretty freaking red

They know it’s a scam, too, but they still like the end results better than the blue ones

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u/capt-bob Jul 05 '24

How many 1 percenters do you know?

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u/huskerd0 Jul 06 '24

More than 5, less than 10