Pollster Scott Rasmussen recently uncovered a fascinating tidbit stemming from his own surveys about what the major driving forces are behind the destructive radicalism in the United States that is ushering the nation into a cultural civil war.
Every week, Rasmussen conducts two national surveys, usually involving around 1,000 respondents. He and his team observed that with each survey, there are always about three or four super radicals who push the most divisive ideology, all of them rich and "educated."
"The radical responses came from people who had graduate degrees (not just graduate studies), family incomes above $150,000 a year, and lived in large cities (more than 10,000 people per zip code)," writes Newt Gingrich for Real Clear Wire.
"When Rasmussen aggregated the responses from more than 20 surveys, he realized these people made up a unique elite 1 percent."
To probe the matter further, Rasmussen and his team concocted a survey specifically designed to root out more of these radicals, asking respondents to rate President Biden's performance. While generally speaking Biden holds around a 41 percent approval rating, the aforementioned rich, elitist one-percenters gave Biden an 82 percent approval rating.
Many of these wealthy one-percenters are surprisingly young, with 67 percent being between 35 and 54 years old. Eighty-six percent of them have fair skin and are classified as "white."
Nearly half of this group, around 47 percent, favors "Sanders-like policies," meaning the democratic socialism platform of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. And, as you might expect, around three in four from this rich elitist group are registered Democrats.
Another thing these rich elitists seem to abhor is freedom. While 57 percent of America in general now agrees that there is no longer enough individual freedom afforded to Americans, nearly half, or 47 percent, of rich elitists say there is too much freedom, and that individual liberty must be scaled back dramatically....<<<Read More>>>...