The quote sounds good, and yes, if it were someone with a conservative worldview, it would be correct and applauded.
The problem with just judging that statement is that you have to understand the underlying assumptions that the speaker is making before passing judgement on what it means.
Palin would mean that big, socialist government is the cause of the decline of the middle class, and that decreasing that influence is the solution.
Warren’s assumptions are that capitalism is the cause of the destruction of the middle class and that more government regulation and economic planning are the solution.
Thanks everyone for the responses. I went to school. Your posts and my follow up google serches that they prompted has convinced me of the error of my position here. I liked a couple of her positions but when the surface was scraped, it was not gold, but tungsten.
I was properly spanked and have learned my lesson. :-p
Seriously though, some of the connections some of you made are really disconcerting. This whole progressive thing almost reads like the takeover of Russia or Germany in the length and depth of its tentacles.
It is so apparently complex as to almost smack of being spiritual in its source. Are these people really that smart?