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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: What's Wrong With America Looking More Like Scandinavia? [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)The upper and middle classes are more frequently appealed to by Republicans and third way half Republicans when they talk about reforming welfare, or SS than they are targets of economic justice measures.
It is often the middle class that would gut programs because they are told lazy poor people (and the dog whistles that go with that) are to blame for the decline of their more comfortable class via all their hard earned tax dollars going to those people, the stupid ones buy it and cheer Clinton types for ending welfare as we know it, and Republicans for the war on food stamp recipients supposed life of luxury and pleasure cruises, they also fall for bi-partisan commissions to fix the budget by cutting SS even tho SS is a separate fund entirely.
They lie to the middle and upper classes to get them to fight the lower classes and distract us all from the fact that all those tax dollars are almost entirely going to the top via corporate welfare rather than to the hardest working and most impoverished classes of all - the lower classes that have to work three jobs just to fall behind.
You are mistaken about what economic justice means, I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you honestly think economic justice is about upper middle class people being able to buy that third vehicle (a Lexus) to go with the range rover and the family van, when it is more about people in my neighborhood where homelessness is rising, that third job is getting too hard for some to maintain, and the disabled or elderly are trying to live on five or six hundred dollars a month.
My neighborhood is in desperate need of economic justice, and I will tell you, my neighborhood is mostly people of color, single mothers, old people (the women among them receiving the least in SS) and kids with no job opportunities whatsoever, sure, their are some middle aged white men (I am a mostly white mixed race middle aged mongrel that passes as just tan), but even we are by no means middle class.
You don't have to worry that economic justice is a white middle class male thing, those that need it do not match that demographic, so it is a good thing that will help your favored causes as well and not something that fights against your issues.