Rick Santorum wants to destroy the “middle class” (the phrase) through an ostrich-like process of denying America is a class-based society! If there are no classes, there can be no “middle class” by definition! QED!
Using the term “middle class” means they “buy into the class warfare arguments of Barack Obama…something that should not be part of the Republican lexicon.”
The meme at risk here is the hardening of income mobility in America which I blogged about before. American men are much more likely to have an income close to or below that of their fathers, unlike those “socialist” countries like Canada or Denmark where social and income mobility are much higher. So Rick Santorum’s attack on the term “middle class” is an effort to distract Americans from the inconvenient facts of our hardening class system.
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