The middle class is unsuitable for politics.
The experiment has failed. To prevent genocide we need a Sulla, or a Pinochet.
This country has always had a "middle class" -- even before the industrial revolution (despite what the author says). Before the Civil War we called them sharecroppers or tenant farmers. They weren't slaves, but they didn't live much better than slaves. Eventually they could be free men, but not necessarily.
The difference in the last 150 years is that this "middle class" can now vote, and has become part of a class structure that would never exist outside a democratic process whereby people feel entitled to use their government to reach their hands into someone else's pockets in the interest of "fairness."
The "middle class" as we know it today is little more than a fictional construct that we use to avoid facing the reality that we simply cannot afford what we have come to see as our God-given standard of living.
It always amazes me to see that childlike impulse among some conservatives for a dictator or a murderer like sulla or Pinochet. Think it all the way through if you’re saving the American Republic by having a murderous dictator, you’re kind of missing the whole point
Based on what principle, logic or definition of terms is this not just nonsense?
"Middle class" meaning who, you and me, or somebody else?
"Unsuitable" meaning what, unable to distinguish right from wrong?
And this applies to how many, 10%, 50%, 90% -- all?
And for this reason we must suffer under a military dictatorship??
It brings to mind a quote from Lincoln on the alleged virtues of slavery:
Send us a post card on how you like it there, FRiend.