The party on the left

Michael Tomasky of The Daily Beast discusses a study by Lee Drutman of the Sunlight Foundation. Drutman notes that "1% of the 1%" (that's roughly 31,000 of 310,000,000) donated 28% of the disclosed political contributions in the last election cycle. Every member of the House and all the 1/3 of the Senate that was elected this year received money from these donors. And 84% took more money from these big donors than from small donors.

Tomasky notes these 1% of the 1% donate more to the GOP than the Dems, but that means the Dems still get a great deal of money. He summarizes it this way:

I'd say the Republicans work for about the top 1.5 percent or maybe 2 percent, and the Democrats work for the top 12 or 15 percent, with regularly occurring efforts in behalf of the broader middle that the whole party cannot or will not support, and very occasional gestures toward the bottom percentiles. And that's the party of the left!

I've been saying for a while now that while the GOP is certainly my enemy, working against all of my beliefs, that does not mean the Dems are my friends.