If you use the 2016
election as a guide, the US voters are split 50-50 with half being Liberal and
half Conservative. But there are ideological and sub-culture groups with
politically active inclinations worth knowing about.
Socialist Party USA
According to the party's
first chairman, Frank Zeidler, the party had around 500 members nationwide in
1975. The Socialist Party
experienced substantial growth during the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s,
expanding from only around 600 dues-paying members to around 1,700. In 2008, WMNF claimed that the party had around 3,000 paying members. However, in 2010 a Common Dreams article suggested that the organization had only 1,000 members
with party members claiming it to be an increase in the amount of members. A New York Times article in May 2011 stated that the party has "about 1,000
members nationally". In
February 2012, an article from The Root stated that the Party had a "membership around 1,500".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_USA
Communist
Party USA
U.S. voters
overwhelmingly reject the ideology that contended for world dominance for much
of the 20th Century.
Still, 11% of Likely
U.S. Voters think communism is morally superior to the U.S. system of politics
and economics, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone
survey.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/march_2011/11_say_communism_better_than_u_s_system_of_politics_and_economics
Government Employees
There were 21,995,000
employed by federal, state and local government in the United States in August,
according to BLS. By contrast, there were only 12,329,000 employed in the
manufacturing sector. The BLS has published seasonally-adjusted month-by-month
employment numbers for both government and manufacturing going back to 1939. In
the first 50 years of the 76-year span since then, manufacturing out-employed
government. But in August 1989, government overtook manufacturing as a U.S.
employer. That month, government employed 17,989,000 and manufacturing employed
17,964,000. Since then, government employment has increased 4,006,000 and
manufacturing employment has declined 5,635,000.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/21955000-12329000-government-employees-outnumber-manufacturing
Atheists
The Pew Religious Landscape survey reported
that as of 2014, 22.8% of the U.S. population is
religiously unaffiliated, atheists made up 3.1% and agnostics made up 4% of the U.S. population. The 2014
General Social Survey reported that 21% of Americans had no religion with 3% being atheist and 5% being agnostic.
https://www.google.com/search?q=number+of+athiests+in+us&rlz=1C1CHWA_enUS664US664&oq=number+of+athiests+in+us&aqs=chrome..69i57.8191j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
LGBT
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The American public
estimates on average that 23% of Americans are gay or lesbian, little changed
from Americans' 25% estimate in 2011, and only slightly higher than separate
2002 estimates of the gay and lesbian population. These estimates are many
times higher than the 3.8% of the adult population who identified themselves as
lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in Gallup Daily tracking in the first
four months of this year.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/183383/americans-greatly-overestimate-percent-gay-lesbian.aspx
Not all
Atheists and Gays are Liberal, but the politically active folks in these groups
are Liberal. Not all government employees are Liberal, but there is evidence
that most federal employees are Liberal.
Prisoners
The number
of people in prisons and jails remains at about 2.3 million with 200,000 in
federal prisons.
Not all
prisoners are Liberals, but they are vulnerable.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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