Because socialism/communism is based solely on jealousy, resentment and anger,
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Future corporate titans of America!
(Seen in Ed Morrissey’s HotAir column)
The DSA sweet spot: highly educated, downwardly mobile
Education and economic security are usually correlated. But where the relationship breaks down is fertile territory for the new left.
Based on this grid, what is the most Democratic voting group in America? It’s voters with postgraduate degrees but lower-to-middle household incomes of $30K to $60K per year.
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.
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.4 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. ...
Could this just be some weird composite artifact of race? In the DSA’s 2021 survey, 85 percent of members reported their race as white5, which certainly isn’t representative of the country or the Democratic Party overall. But in the broader CES data, we find that the patterns mostly hold once you disaggregate by race.
Ed: Silver has several takeaways from this data, but the "sweet spot" for socialists appears to be those who went to college, got a useless degree, and now want government to redistribute social goods because they made poor choices. And they want to control that redistribution themselves and make it happen by any means necessary.
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Bonus Material: Where, besides the usual occupations of turkey plucking and postage stamp licking, can gender studies majors find employment:
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Corporate, educational, and social service DEI departments, this site suggests. The problem is, DEI employees working in this area produce nothing, and private employers, having discovered this, are cutting their salaries or letting DEI die entirely, leaving only government-funded jobs as a source of employment.
