2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you know a really rich person? [View all]senz
(11,945 posts)Republican wealthy are unabashedly selfish, elitist, and cold. They can be amazingly polite and well behaved, but they are cold at heart. "Poor people are that way by choice: they are lazy." Period. "The natural order is hierarchical; we were meant to be on top."
The Democratic wealthy that I knew were FDR-style Democrats, not DLC/Third Way (very important). They were interested in creativity, art, literature, music, and exploration more than in business. They may have been deep-level selfish but not so elitist and not cold. Wealthy FDR-style Democrats have working consciences.
Both tend to be self-congratulatory.
I suspect wealthy DLC/Third Way Democrats are closer to their Republican counterparts than they are to FDR Democrats.