The GOP: No Party for Wealthy Men?

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist Wednesday, June 01, 2016

Billionaire and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently complained to a Wall Street gathering that "the Republican Party is no longer the party of business." He predicted that union members, not corporate executives, would be voting GOP this fall.

This is a problem?

Many union members vote Republican. They were the core of the "Reagan Democrats." Working people need a growing economy with increasing opportunity. Of course they should vote GOP.

Bloomberg's remarks help explain the rise of both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Average people increasingly believe the current system to be rigged against them. Washington is far more responsive to well-heeled elites than the middle class and working people.

Of course, politics always has meant attempting to take advantage of one's fellow citizens. It was that way in ancient times. It was that way in colonial Great Britain. And it is that way in America today.