As wealthier and better-educated voters have shifted toward the Democrats, the party and its constituents have become more economically progressive, uniting around an agenda that aids the poor and middle class.
The richest Democrats are just as left-wing on economics as their less affluent party members, and far more economically progressive than low- and middle-income Republicans.
U.S. politics seems to have decisively entered what you might call a post-Marxist or post-materialist phase, where material self-interest is no longer the sole driver of voting behavior.
Through the New Deal to the Bush era, the Marxist view largely held - from the rich and educated voting Republican to the working class voting Democrat.
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