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Have Liberals Lost the Middle Class?
Townhall.com ^
| January 7, 2015
| Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 01/07/2015 8:50:09 AM PST by Kaslin
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posted on
01/07/2015 8:50:09 AM PST
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Why would they be associated with the middle class in the first place?
They’re all about establishing a virtually feudalistic system of neo-nobility ruling class government officials and the rest being peasants that live and die at their whim.
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posted on
01/07/2015 8:52:18 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Kaslin
Is that lost as in misplaced? Or lost as in destroyed?
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posted on
01/07/2015 8:53:58 AM PST
by
Paine in the Neck
(Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
To: MrB
Why would they be associated with the middle class in the first place?Decades of brainwashing. The Democrats are for the "little guy," but Republicans are the party of cigar smoking fat cats in spats and top hats.
To: Kaslin
They have also lost the working poor.
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posted on
01/07/2015 8:57:12 AM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
To: Kaslin
Tick, tick, tick.... countdown to the revolution. Likely to be more like the French revolution this time around.
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posted on
01/07/2015 8:57:19 AM PST
by
TheDon
(The genocide in Iraq is the legacy of Barack Obama.)
To: Kaslin
Just because the Dems lost the middle class does not mean that the GOP has found it.
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posted on
01/07/2015 9:00:40 AM PST
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Hey Obama! Wake up and piss! The World's on FIRE!)
To: Disambiguator
Yup. Here in Pennsyltucky the white middle class has long swallowed that bit hook, line and sinker.
If Libs are losing the white middle class it’s due to the Ferguson Factor and not economics.
To: Kaslin
Back in the 70’s my mother would argue politics with my uncle. He would say the democrats are for a the little guy. She asked, “Do you have a job? Then you are not the little guy.”
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posted on
01/07/2015 9:01:15 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: Disambiguator
To the liberals, people in the middle class are those who work for the government, are members of favored unions or preferably, both.
New York even has a "Working Families" Party line which fits this definition to a "T" and allows them to disassociate with Democrats while at the same time giving their votes to Democrats.
The rest of us slugs who aren't so connected are, evidently, not working families regardless of how much work we actually do.
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posted on
01/07/2015 9:03:52 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Kaslin
They have shrunk the middle class to the point that losing it is almost irrelevant. Also, the “working class” poor demographic being described in the article is not the “middle class”.
To: Kaslin
Lost it? They have done their damnedest to destroy it!
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posted on
01/07/2015 9:12:34 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
"Lost it? They have done their damnedest to destroy it!"
Absolutely right. The marxists have always blamed the unexpected rise of the middle class for preventing their cherished workers revolution. Their solution is to destroy the middle class. Looking at things through this prism helps explain all of Obama's actions.
To: Kaslin
The new bifurcated Democratic Party of rich and poor shows a sort of contempt for those who do not share the privileged tastes of the elites and can't earn their easy sympathy by being dependent on liberal government largesse. American democrats are the new South American banana republic's team... with white liberal elites gaming power by exploiting the fears and humiliations of the lower-class criminal classes... Hello Sharpton...
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posted on
01/07/2015 9:25:02 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(For political purposes there's blacks and non-blacks... "People of Color' is a liberal lie...)
To: Kaslin
The left is only interested in the “Plantation Class.”
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posted on
01/07/2015 9:27:19 AM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Buckeye Battle Cry
“Just because the Dems lost the middle class does not mean that the GOP has found it.”
Ding ding ding....winner.
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posted on
01/07/2015 9:27:29 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(I'm from the Soylent Corporation and I am here to help.)
To: Kaslin
Democrats may have lost the middle class, but the GOP is doing absolutely nothing to bring them into the fold.
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posted on
01/07/2015 9:31:43 AM PST
by
Major Matt Mason
("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
To: Kaslin
Nah. They can vote for the Republicans.
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posted on
01/07/2015 9:33:13 AM PST
by
deadrock
(I am someone else.)
To: wolfman23601
They have shrunk the middle class to the point that losing it is almost irrelevant. Also, the working class poor demographic being described in the article is not the middle class. In the original definitions of the terms, you were "working class" if you worked for a paycheck. You were "middle class" if you were the owner of a business. And then there was the "upper class", the European landed aristocracy.
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posted on
01/07/2015 9:34:20 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: Major Matt Mason
Democrats may have lost the middle class, but the GOP is doing absolutely nothing to bring them into the fold.
Democrats may have lost the middle class, but the GOP has partnered with the Dumbocraps to eliminate it.
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posted on
01/07/2015 9:36:06 AM PST
by
867V309
(Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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