2019 Welfare, Work, and Wealth National Survey by the CATO Institute was recently released. It is a doozy of a survey with huge amounts of data to go through and unpack.
The thing that jumped out at me though was a theory of underlying motive for many Progressives was not simply due to Compassion, as they would like to believe and is often assumed, but that an actual stronger indicator of Progressive economic policies was what can be called, well, envy, with Resentment of High Achievers being a stronger indicator of support for socialism than Compassion.
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This resentment of the wealthy impacts things across the board, with Democrats dislike the rich and favoring the poor, while Republicans like or dislike both in much more even measures, since they have no underlying resentment towards one group:
Honestly there's a LOT more good in this survey, data on how Democrats tend to see external societal forces being more important on people's success than individual actions, while Republicans believe the opposite. Lots of inter-generational data, data on things per race. Honestly, it's fascinating and I've barely scratched the surface, but, I found it, it's fascinating, so let's talk about it!
The thing that jumped out at me though was a theory of underlying motive for many Progressives was not simply due to Compassion, as they would like to believe and is often assumed, but that an actual stronger indicator of Progressive economic policies was what can be called, well, envy, with Resentment of High Achievers being a stronger indicator of support for socialism than Compassion.
This resentment of the wealthy impacts things across the board, with Democrats dislike the rich and favoring the poor, while Republicans like or dislike both in much more even measures, since they have no underlying resentment towards one group:
Honestly there's a LOT more good in this survey, data on how Democrats tend to see external societal forces being more important on people's success than individual actions, while Republicans believe the opposite. Lots of inter-generational data, data on things per race. Honestly, it's fascinating and I've barely scratched the surface, but, I found it, it's fascinating, so let's talk about it!
