Democratic Congresswoman Says Democrats Party of the Rich

the problem with picking the normal candidate [i.e., Biden, is that] the normal candidate doesn’t care about you. The normal candidate knows better than you. The normal candidate will screw you over to appease the powers that put him there. You don’t matter; you are the ruled rubes, not the governed citizens.   .   . We were promised unity. And what do we have? A political pogrom against the ex-president that serves less purpose than a Hindu steakhouse.

— David Marcus, Federalist

Do you know why we hear so much about the top 1%? It’s because Democrats want to keep us from looking at the top 10% (including 1%ers), the folks who really rule us.

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), whose district includes her hometown of Toledo where she grew up the daughter of a union organizer, says her fellow Democrats “just can’t understand.”

They can’t understand a family that sticks together because that’s what they have. Their loved ones are what they have, their little town, their home, as humble as it is — that’s what they have. Respect it.


Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in Congress, fears her party is dominated by members representing affluent districts — and that the social mores of rich coastal cities are sidelining kitchen-table economic concerns.

Asked if she feels like a minority in being a Democrat representing a working-class district, she replied, “Yes, I do.”

Kaptur pointed to a chart ranking congressional districts by median household income, and their party representation. Of the 20 wealthiest districts, 19 are represented by Democrats. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) represents the nation’s fourth-richest district.

Democrats dominate the upper half of the nation’s districts by a clear margin, with the bottom half disproportionately choosing Republicans as their Congresspersons.

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