classless

i guess chanting 'middle class' like a parrot must still be focus-grouping well, though i find it hard to imagine why. it's as though this were 2004 and obama had decided to pursue the losing strategy developed by the miserable john kerry. i wouldn't, for example, frame the whole issue of income inequality as being about 'the middle class.' more or less everyone is implicated. whether or not it's a delusion, i don't think most americans immediately define themselves in terms of social class, so i think that few people are really going to vibrate to the message. really it's though you expect people to raise their fists and chant 'we. are. middle. class': as inspiring as oatmeal. at least we aren't poor. maybe '99%' is better than i thought.