billionaires donate to both sides, it's called hedging
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States )
"The 1896 realignment cemented the Republicans as the party of big businesses while president Theodore Roosevelt added more small business support by his embrace of trust busting."
Today 'ole Teddy would be a democrat, why?
because he was in favor of a progressive income tax on the rich and powerful
indexed for inflation, 'ole Teddy didn't want to start taxin folks until only after about 60k of income...
he didn't wanna tax the labor of the 'workin man', only the plutocracy
his speech here
http://ips-dc.org/a_century_later_teddy_roosevelts_speech_on_corporate_power/ now republicans have flipped everything
1. tax the working man more than the 1%
2. support Russia, instead of opposing it
what happened to the republican party?
they fell victim to the "Iron Law of Oligarchy"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy now Republican apologists like Anne Coulter will assert that today's Republican Party is the same 'Party of Lincoln" from 1860
but it's NOT, they're connin you
Today the Republican party is more or less MAGA with 'alternative facts" that are distributed through their media outlets owned by people like Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk and a galaxy of other disinformation sites
Remember 'Pravda'? now we have "Truth Social"
same deal...
a simple comparison of the two
Democrats
New Deal/social security, etc
'64 Civil Rights Act
Affordable Care Act
student loan forgiveness
Republicans
Tax cuts for corporations and bilionaires
TODAY, you yourself Beel, have medical insurance, NOT because of Republicans (not a single Republican voted for the ACA, aka "Obamacare")
you have it in spite of Republicans, cuz they were willin to let ya die without it, so that their patrons could keep more money for themselves
I'm not sure why you wanna lend political support to the party that's SO indifferent to you, that they don't care if you live or die
why is it you vote against your own interests, to maintain the staus quo of the billionaires?
are you a closet billionaire Beel?
btw, I was a republican up to Ronald Reagan...
as the cliche goes
I didn't leave the party, the party left me
I even campaigned for a Republican Senator in my youth
"Upside down"
a great music video filmed in the FSU