@gjohnsit Where else to go get the pulse of what Americans think than a selective, privileged, elite eastern college.

smugness

First, there's the ABC News/Washington Post poll published last week that found just 28% think the Democratic Party is "in touch with the concerns of most people in the United States today." Even among Democrats, only slightly more than half (52%) think the party is in touch with people in the country.
...When CNN's Jake Tapper asked smug liberal comedian/political commentator Samantha Bee this weekend whether there is a "smug liberal problem," her response was: "I don't think there is."

Meanwhile, a survey of Dartmouth students published last week found that not only are liberals smug, they are far less tolerant of other viewpoints than Republicans on campus.

More than two-thirds of Republican students at Dartmouth (69%) say they'd be comfortable with a roommate who had opposing political views. But only 39% of Democrats said that. Nearly half of Democrats said they'd be uncomfortable with a roommate of a different political persuasion; just 12% of Republicans said that.

@GusBecause

Ah! Got an urgent request for $ today from Schumer Who apparently didn't get the news that I dumped the dems. Luckily I still had a wooden shim to include with my rant, triggering the requirement for a very costly hand canceling charge to Jerusalem-belongs-to-Israel-coz-its-in-the-torah Schumer. Eh!

It's too bad you couldn't have had it sent from Jerusalem.....

Who apparently didn't get the news that I dumped the dems. Luckily I still had a wooden shim to include with my rant, triggering the requirement for a very costly hand canceling charge to Jerusalem- belongs-to-Israel-coz-its-in-the-torah Schumer. Eh!

@doh1304 I was going to say you should see an optometrist about that but...I'm thataway too: you can have my rose-colored glasses when you can pry them from my old dead hands.
Without those glasses, I won't get out of bed every morning.

And that the Democratic "membership" will bolt in a minute.
I have a friend wwho was a chemical engineer. He retired early because a high school graduate with an iPad could replace him. Once teh employers realize that the college grad demographic is doomed to the same poverty that high school onlys now enjoy.
The good part of all this is that the more this happens the less people will fall for the "Democratic" selling point that they are somehow superior to the great unwashed. At first they may flock to the Reb... fascists, but they will quickly learn that fascism is a con, leaving huge opportunities for a new party.
I'm a cockeyed optomist.

@Pricknick Keep sayin' if your well enough off you'll be buying expensive houses in the 'right' town, looking for the best schools for your kid all the way to that elite university, buying vacation homes in the same area, buying more expensive cars, have good health care and generally more than you need to get by. You'll be commuting into work on the same trains......
as your wealthy conservative neighbors.

You'll use the same lawn care services, nannies, auto repair shops, caddies and trash pickup and bitch about the cost, same as your conservative neighbors. Your public service will be writing checks to a political party and volunteering in (and to benefit) your own community.....
just like your conservative neighbors.

So, really, at that level, who has more in common with each other? If the conservatives want to destroy us, these people won't care. We're just not on the radar.

How much significant change can you expect out of a political party that is increasingly made up of successful, comfortable households?

Your own words.
Both parties are basically the same.
Well done!