Reply #55: I agree with you but let me challenge that a little bit [View All]

[Capitalocracy]

When he's talking about fighting for the middle class, what he means is to expand the middle class. He listed the problem as being the fact that the middle class is shrinking and the impoverished are growing, so when he says he wants to expand the middle class, he means by pulling people out of poverty.

So I agree, a lot of times when politicians talk about helping the middle class, they're ignoring the problems of the poor, or pretending the poor don't exist, or trying to perpetuate the mindset that no matter how poor you are, you're middle class, in other words, trying to eliminate the term poor and turn middle class into a euphemism for it. Which fits right into the game plan of creating a rich class and a poor class with nothing inbetween. But I don't think Cenk is doing that here, I think he's talking about the need to protect the middle class we have and bring more poor people up to that level. He probably doesn't see the problem as closely as you or I do, there's a severe class mobility problem in the U.S. and the world right now that makes it extremely easy to become poor and extremely difficult to get ahead, and Cenk still holds onto those "American Dream" ideas a little bit too closely, but I think he basically understands the problem.

At least he recognizes that they're turning the U.S. into a third-world country. I live in a third-world country and I know it's true, I see the signs that the U.S. is headed in the same direction.