Commentary: The Elite One Percent Behind the Cultural Civil War

by Newt Gingrich, Gingrich 360

Scott Rasmussen has done America an enormous service. He and his team have identified the driving forces behind the destructive radicalism which is pushing us into a cultural civil war.

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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).

When Rasmussen aggregated the responses from more than 20 surveys, he realized these people made up a unique elite 1 percent.

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To illustrate the scale of the gap between the elite 1 percent and the rest of the country, consider the elite 1 percent’s views on climate issues (and understand that these ideas are opposed by 63 percent to 83 percent of most Americans).

• 77 percent of the elite 1 percent would like to impose strict restrictions and rationing on the private use of gas, meat, and electricity.
• 72 percent of the elite 1 percent favor banning gas powered vehicles.
• 69 percent of the elite 1 percent favor banning gas stoves.
• 58 percent of the elite 1 percent favor of banning sport utility vehicles.
• 55 percent of the elite 1 percent favor banning non-essential air travel.
• 53 percent of the elite 1 percent favor banning private air conditioning.

As Rasmussen noted, the degree to which the elite 1 percent think their views represent those of the average American is astonishing.

Scott Rasmussen has a new polling and media company having left the polling company he founded, Rasmussen Reports.  Forced out? I haven’t been able to find anything out about that.  But I suspect that Scott and James O’Keefe could form a very small and very elite club of their own.

Most of the problems in this country now come from the obvious truth that the Lying Media (that’s their official name now) and the Eternal Federal Bureaucracy  only listen to the Elite One Percent.  The 99% might as well not waste our time.