Reply #4: Ah yes, the supposed middle

[pberq]

Taking a page right out of the DLC playbook, we must be oh so concerned about those Americans in the "middle".

I recall a column Michael Moore wrote during the last Republican Convention where he went and interviewed a bunch of the rank-and-file Republicans. He asked them questions that concern all of us who are not part of the super-rich - health care, education, etc.

What was the response? They mostly came down as progressives. So this myth of the "middle", in my opinion, is just a way of fooling people into voting for the corporate candidates, against their own interests.