Great comments. Great passion. Cool article. Not wholly accurate or on point, but I love the energy.
Middle class by definition is a statistical classification. A “geographical” location on a chart plotting average incomes over time.
Middle referred to a specific economic position, not to the caliber of people occupying it. Middling is inaccurate and doesn’t represent the members of the class that created great wealth in this country. I say created it, not possessed it.
And as far as A players, by what effing standard are these being determined? Who is deciding what is an A, B or C player is in this country? Do we really listen to the creme de la creme and what they have to say? Does anyone hear the powerful nuance of billionaires? I’d rather converse with a ferret, at least the conversation would be real and based on both our points of view.
Please let’s not buy into this concept (I believe it to be incorrect or at best flawed) that the elite, the movers and shakers are trying to surround themselves with the best and brightest. History tells us the opposite was normally true. Those in power seldom wanted the equally powerful and adept to hold important positions around them. They were afraid of losing that power to them.
The middle class, the unions, the average Joes that flexed their muscle in their small communities to keep things fair, are what kept the 1% at bay since WW II. Kept corporation from wielding the kind of power that is once again common place today. That helped grow the middle class into one of the greatest economic forces in our country’s history.
We chastise politicians for getting rid of millions of manufacturing jobs and sending them overseas. The government didn’t order or authorize this exodus. Corporations did, (those self same that are now benefiting from the $Trillion tax package for the common man). Corporations and wealthy PACs and the unfathomable wisdom of most of our Supreme Court justices (Citizens United) are re-shaping America based on someone’s vision. It’s not mine.
We need to focus on the right targets. Vote for the right people. Use what’s left of our economical power to alter the current drift towards … Geez, I don’t even know how to describe it. Towards an America that is not spending so much time fighting Americans.
