PARTY AFFILIATION
You Might Be a Rich Republican
Maybe even one of the anonymous donors to the NRCC!
If you can’t remember in which of your houses you left your invitation to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) fundraising Gala, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you’ve ever paid your accountant to stretch the definition of “charity,” you might be a Rich Republican.
If you think it is obvious why vintage 2016 red wine is the best, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you check the stock tracker on your phone to decide how much to contribute to your party of choice, you might be a Rich Republican.
If trickle-down economics works for you, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you think scamming the welfare system for a few hundred bucks a month is a bigger problem than failing to pay millions in taxes legally due, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you think corporations are people, even though Texas has not executed one, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you think it is censorship when media companies refuse to publish blatant lies, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you think illegal immigrants have no place in America but employ several to maintain the grounds at your estate, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you happen to own a construction company and favor building a massive wall on the southern border of the US, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you believe the most important part of the Constitution is the second amendment, and coincidentally you manufacture guns or ammo, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you are certain that it was only your hard work and brains that got you to where you are financially, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you invite a Supreme Court Justice to hang out on your yacht, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you label NPR as “government-influenced media” while accepting billions in government subsidies and contracts, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you think bailing out big businesses that are “too big to fail” is necessary but students saddled with debt need to suffer the consequences of their bad choices, you might be a Rich Republican.
If the widening gap between the richest Americans and the poorest is of no concern to you, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you’ve purchased property on Hudson Bay, Canada as a hedge against climate change, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you know that people are poor mostly due to their own poor choices, you might be a Rich Republican.
If you’re thinking that you should buy Medium to stop posts like this one, you might be a Rich Republican.