2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hey, Middle Class: Hillary Gets It [View all]AOR
(692 posts)and bullshit sloganeering that appeals to the staus quo and the comfortable. It's bullshit when Clinton does it and it's bullshit when Sanders does. They need drop the "middle class" garbage and start speaking in the language of ALL workers. Nearly 50% of Americans earn less and exist on less than $27,000 a year while close to 40% of Americans have zero retirement savings and 1 out of every 7 Americans over 65 lives in poverty. When the working poor and those dispossessed hear this "middle class" economic pablum it does not resonate with the plight of those who have never been "middle class." Clinton and Sanders should be speaking to ALL workers and of economic justice for ALL workers (past, present, and future). That means talking about the working class, and those dispossessed by Capitalism -as a whole - and not some illusionary "middle class" who "bear all the burden."
Time to expand the tent and the message.
" We got to face some facts. That the masses ARE POOR, that the masses
belong to what you call the LOWER CLASS, and when I talk about the
masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black
masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too...
-- Fred Hampton