Sorry for this question. I am still learning.
Something that has always bothered me is how much u.s. politicians obsess over helping the middle class. Seems like the two major parties talk about it a lot. Why do they endlessly talk about helping the middle class, but never seem to acknowledge or focus on helping the (lower?) or poverty or proletariat class?
To me it sounds like the middle class by definition should be not be as in need as other classes that don't have as much? What's the purpose of this?
Edit: Thanks for all your responses. :)
random stat i half remember from
is something that like 80% of Americans consider themselves to be "middle class". When politicians say "middle class", they can appeal to basically everyone while the average listener feels like they're being spoken to more specifically
TBF, that probably tallies quite will with the labour aristocracy numbers.