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OK... So I'm sitting in the lobby bar in this cheezy French-pwned hotel smack in the heartland of Leftern Ecotopia. I'm happily freepin' along on my laptop with my loyal turkey by my side... and I can't help but overhear the conversation happening next to me. Two men and a woman, apparently here for some business conference or other. They have name tags on.

There's some of the usual quips and cheap shots at Bush, Iraq, yadda yadda yadda... none of which arouses my interest much. It's the usual DU talking points. I don't care. But then this woman starts off on this rant about the economy, and how the U.S. has an "hourglass" economy. That is... that the U.S. is predominantly made up of the rich at the top and the poor at the bottom and a thin stretched middle class between.

OK, it's the usual class-warfare leftist stuff. But it is an interesting insight into leftism. They really believe that this is how it is. That it is so thoroughly and demonstrably untrue should be obvious to everyone (including themselves).

I muttered under my breath-- and did not engage-- that no, in fact it was pretty obvious that the U.S. is made up more like her figure: pointy at the very top, narrow in the upper part, very wide in the middle, and smaller again as you move very far down. [OK, my own shape isn't too far off either, but it's not as pointy at the top].

Aspersions aside: It is plain to see that the middle class is enormous in this country and is the driver for the entire economy. The "rich" are there, and sure they've got lots of money, but there aren't enough of them to make a meaningful difference in either tax policy or anything else. The "poor" are also there, but they are also -- indisputably-- a much smaller number. Not to mention that the U.S. has the richest "poor" in the entire world.

Hourglass my butt.

But I think it is an interest peek under the hood of how liberals see the world.