It is all in how you define "rich." Republicans still and always have had enormous appeal to the middle class. The biggest lie of our time is that by Democrats that Republicans were the party of the rich. Imagine the silliness of that claim by presidents Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.Look at what I quoted from gopher. Nothing was said about people already dems and being rich. It's the rich repubs that are crossing over, we're talking about, mostly due to DJT. The rich becoming dems.
The problem that Democrats present is the destruction of the middle class. Look at China, you have a very wealthy class and you have people working for subsistence and effectively as slaves. They put nets around their factories to catch those who try to commit suicide by jumping. North Korea is the same. That is not unlike the Europe that many of our families escaped.
The US has historically been a nation of the middle class, and from that our strength came. That sector of our economy is now the highest taxed sector and is dwindling, not due to flight from our country, but due to people just giving up, retiring early, or going on welfare for a better lifestyle. Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama pay less than a third in percentage of what I and other middle-class Americans pay in taxes. The latest proposal by the Democrat nominee will increase taxes on that sector even more. Reagan and Bush cut taxes on the middle class. Democrats got rid of those breaks in short order.
I have a sense that you don't know the history of the Democrat party. Hillary has not changed that one iota. You need to go see Dinesh DeSouza 's new film: Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party. I'll even pay for your ticket. At every turn in our history, Democrats supported slavery and segregation. Dwight Eisenhower was the one who battled FDR to allow blacks to serve on an equal basis in our military. It was Eisenhower's Supreme Court that ruled separate but equal was unconstitutional. He paid the price for that in a solidly Democrat South for decades.
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