You know how I call socialism and communism the ideologies of greed and envy? Well, Nate Silver has the proof. The hardcore DSA communist uprising has some surprising statistics.
The DSA occupies the high-education, lower-income corner of the electorate, Silver writes. He calls them the downwardly mobile. Be careful about conflating class with educational attainment. It is so much more than a college degree, he warns.
The most Democratic voting group in America is voters with postgraduate degrees but lower-to-middle household incomes of $30K to $60K per year, Silver found.
This is very much also the sweet spot for the DSA. In the group’s most recent member survey in 2021, 80 percent of members aged 25 or older had bachelor’s degrees, but 45 percent had household incomes below $60,000 per year.
The single most Democratic voting bloc in America and the DSA membership is not the poor, the hungry, the tired, and the victims. It is the well-educated, low-paid Americans.
It is people with postgraduate degrees earning between thirty and sixty thousand dollars a year.
In the DSA’s own 2021 membership survey, 80 percent of members over 25 held a bachelor’s degree, but 45 percent had household incomes under $60,000. Silver notes that only about 19 percent of all degree-holders in America live under that income line — the DSA runs at roughly double the national rate.
They are disaffected white elitists.
Silver:
This is unusual, because education and income are usually substantially positively correlated. In the composite CES data, only 19 percent of Americans with bachelor’s degrees or higher had household incomes of $60K or below. The DSA rate is around twice that. These voters aren’t necessarily “blue collar” in the sense of working with their hands. But that doesn’t mean they’re privileged. Common occupations among DSA members include teachers, non-profit workers, social workers, and public sector employees.
By contrast, who are the most Republican voters in the country? It’s not necessarily voters with a lot of “economic anxiety”. Rather, it’s the precise opposite corner from the DSA: high-earners who didn’t attend college. About 60 percent of voters with a high school education or less, but whose households earned incomes of $60,000 or above, preferred Trump to the various Democratic presidential candidates. (You can probably think of various stereotypical professions here too: small business owners, independent contractors, real estate developers, used-car dealers, etc.).
Could this just be some weird composite artifact of race? In the DSA’s 2021 survey, 85 percent of members reported their race as white.
High-education, lower-income voters are cultural libs, too.
Occupy Wall Street, one of the first far-left uprisings of its kind, was filled with rich kids who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on their education, but couldn’t get jobs worthy of their egos.
We’ve educated too many elitists in colleges and universities for too few elite jobs. As a result, they are jealous, entitled, and want your stuff.
