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FiveThirtyEight, John Sides writes up some research on the politics of the top 1 percent. It's particularly difficult to get reliable information on the attitudes of the very wealthy, so while the study he focuses on is preliminary, its results to this point are important nonetheless. The take-home? Basically, the top 1 percent believes in the economic policy framework that benefits the top 1 percent: They prioritize the deficit over the economy and "want private-sector solutions, not government solutions."
These positions make total sense if you're rich and you only care about yourself, or don't have the sociological imagination to get that other people's lives are substantially different from your own and yet still legitimate. You don't need a job, you can pay to replace a lot of government services that are on the chopping block, and you stand to benefit from more and more power being shifted into the private sector. The capper to the desire for private-sector rather than government solutions is that "there is no strong tendency for those who are most suspicious of government to do more in the way of charitable activity." But it sounds better to talk about philanthropy rather than admitting you just don't care about other people, doesn't it?
If you're thinking those positions seem similar to the views that dominate policy discussions inside the Beltway, you're not wrong. Another result Sides highlights is that the 1 percent are extraordinarily politically active, not just voting but attending political meetings and contributing to candidates. Add their high levels of political engagement to the fact that many politicians are themselves very wealthy and that wealth means that when you want to talk to a politician, you're not doing it as an audience member at a town hall but in a more equal and up-close setting, and there are some key ingredients in the political domination of the top 1 percent.