Reply #6: The working class has been telling the middle class for years that they were next. All the while the

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upper middle class and it's lower middle class wanna be's watched silent as the working class was shredded. The middle class cheered as democrats moved further and further to the right, cutting social programs and sending the lower class's kids to war for the corporations.
Never did they join with the working class in the last 30 years to fight the creeping conservatism. Most cheered when another "greedy" union fell or food stamps where cut and when personal responsibility became the politically correct meme they lashed out at the working class relentlessly from their middle class high horses. Apparently the ability to consume in excess was a measure of character and intelligence.

Now it's come home to roost. If this is what it takes for people to wake up from their consumer stupor and realize what happens to the least of us happens to us all, so be it. It can't happen too soon.