What About The Middle Class?

Recently, with the prices of gas, food and most everything else moving shockingly close to subsistence-level wages for those who make the goods, there has been much hand-wringing and boo-hooing about the fate of the middle class in America. Every other news story is about some “hard-working American family” who has had to endure the unthinkable, like not eat in restaurants but once a month and cancel their Constitutionally-guaranteed beach/mountain vacation. Some of these poor folks have even had to sell their second houses and third cars just to keep up the payments on their 3000 sq ft suburban McMansions.

Newsflash: The middle class is a figment of its own imagination.

There is no such thing as a “middle class” and it is high time these yahoos learned where they actually stand. For half a century these mouth-breathing idiots (and their mouth-breathing idiot parents before them) have allied themselves with the owning class based on a complete fiction. They have pretended that because they shower before work instead of after they must somehow be better than or higher up the food chain than those who actually sweat and get dirty at work. They have acted as if mortgaging everything in sight made them probationary members of the owning class, instead of debt slaves (as if being wage slaves wasn’t a tight enough collar for them). They have been involved in an enormous project of self-delusion for the sake of crumbs thrown from the table of the owning class.

These are the idiots who cheered when the Unions were busted and the manufacturing jobs went overseas, stupidly unaware that it was even easier to send their “managerial”, “creative class” jobs to the same foreign shores and then had the temerity to complain about it when that is exactly what happened.

These are the same idiots who think that AFDC and Medicaid are Communism, but now call for government handouts (in the form of tax cuts or “holidays”) to help fill up their SUV.

These are the idiots who are ruining our country by pretending to be who they are not. Maybe now they will see what side they are on, or at least that those who own and run the country are not on their side.

Maybe not.