Old, Wealthy Democrats Are Sabotaging Their Own Party

Republican Senator Susan Collins faces a rigid application for re -election in Maine next year, but she has ace in his sleeve: the Hollywood Democrats who love it and are ready to fill their elections to the treasury.

August 19, The New York Times report The fact that Collins will participate in the fundraising on her behalf on September 26 at the Belle Lansing House, former chairman Paramount Pictures and well -known means from the Democratic Party. Bigwig Casey Wasserman, a media industry that shares the same political profile as Lansing, conducts a joint event. Harry E. Sloon, chairman of the Metro-Goldwin-Maer, who has in the past supported tolerant Republicans such as John McCain, but will recently participate Joe Biden and Kamal Harris. The reception is aimed at the good reasonable, and the tickets prices are from $ 3,500 to $ 10,000.

How Term Notes:

The fact that Mrs. Collins is a toast of some liberal donors is something strange. But the senator spoke about himself as an independent, supporters among moderate democratic voters and donors.

Dinner Collins offers a picture of a special world of wealthy democratic donors that use negative power, although they often make terrible decisions for both their party and for their country.

Coline’s support is a great example. You would think that donors belonging to the Democrats or even consider themselves friendly to the party, admit that Collis’s victory is very important – especially with Maine where Kamala Harris won Donald Trump by 7 percent In 2024, the Democrats gave a rare opportunity to turn the place in the Republican Senate in 2026.

The Democratic fans of Collins will probably say that they believe it is important to support the “moderate” as it, regardless of which party they come from. But carefully raised the reputation of Collins Senator, who is ready to withstand Trump’s extremism, is in dads. Even as a centralist source as Term recogniz that her “protest votes are as strategic as symbolic” (in other words, they almost never throw when they could stop the policies that Trump wants). Collins voted for all of the Trump’s office nominees. In the first three years of Trump’s first term advocate More than 96 percent of their court nominees, including the judges of the Supreme Court, Nile Garsh and Britta Kavana. She is now claim Her was misleading these nominees for abortion but it does not change the fact that the end Rooe v. WadeTogether with other legal horrors, she rests on her shoulders.

In addition to the fact that her claim to moderate – fictional, Collins should be defeated because she is a member of the GoP, a party that threatens us democracy. The abolition of the influence of contism will require the win as many democratic places as possible. The fact that Collins has a political profile that, as a wealthy Democrats (fiscal conservative and socially liberal), should not matter. She has r near her name. It should be the end of the discussion.

Rich Democrats raise money for Colinz, obviously either do not understand or do not accept general refrain from party leaders that this is the moment of maximum danger to democracy. One of the obvious explanations of their behavior is that since members of 1 percent, these donors know that Collins will strive for their financial interests better than democratic alternatives such as Graham Platner, a farmer oysters A reliable message of economic populism will lead to victory.

Age is another factor. In an article published earlier this year in The magazine of the State EconomyPolitical scientists Adam Bonik and Jacob M. Grub deed This gerantocracy is a problem that intertwined both the political elite and the US donor class. The average Americans are about 39 years old, the average voter 47 and the average Congress member is 57.5. But the age of the average donor is even superior. As noted by Bonic and the Grub

If we weigh donors worth the dollar, we will find that the average dollar has come from the age of 64 (ie the average age of donors weighing in dollars is 63.9). The average dollar came from the age of 66. We also find that only $ 9% of the deposit came from donors who are 40 years and younger.

In other words, a typical donor is almost 20 years older than a typical voter.

Older, wealthy, whiter and more conservative than the public in general, donors usually prefer candidates who think they are, and also closer to their age. The fact that Colinz is 72 years old since 1997, makes it more attractive to the donor class, regardless of belonging to the party.

The tendency for gerontocracy among donors also has different ideological actors. This is a group that reacted to Trump by accepting the religion of the Ancien Régime restoration, which provides for the best future as a return to the Days of Glory of the two -party commission. It should not be remembered that this nostalgic vision of the past is little relevant to reality (because the conflict has always been endemic for policy). We already know that this is a political deadlock. This is the mythos to which Biden addressed when he waved eloquent About his friendship with racist reactionaries, such as the STRM prison, and Kamala Harris tried to exploit When she was supported by Liz Cheney and her family. As we know too well, voters were less impressed.

Genetocracy is a problem because there can be different interests in different age cohorts. As noted by Bonica and Grumbach:

There are also good reasons that support the greater presentation of the young based on the cohort. Public crises, technological changes and economic shocks are not distributed evenly over time. In other words, the age in politics is more than the effects of the life cycle are critical differences in generations that leave us confidently whether young and future generations are reached by the current political boomer. For example, the Baby Boomer generation created considerable wealth at the expense of housing, but then helped to create restrictive laws on the restoration and other politicians that made the construction of well -being through property for young generations. Compared to young people, the old generations also avoid most of the civilizational climate change.

One of the main reasons for the Democrats lost to the 2024 presidential election was a huge erosion of the youth voting. Too many young voters who supported Biden in 2020 were either evicted in the 2024 elections or voted for Trump. The feeling of young people from the party has many factors, but is definitely one of the reasons that the Democrats are in the clawer plutocratic and geriatric donor, which prevents the party perceive by economic populism or Listening to the deep voter disgust to the genocide in the gas.

The Colin Property Party is a symbol of the donor class deeply at odds with the Democratic Party voters. This is a donor class that is most likely sabotage of your own party than helping her win the election.