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?
The "middle class" is a quite successful attempt by bourgeois propaganda to create a new socioeconomic analysis that is not rooted in the actual objective role we have in our economy, as in workers who produce vs capitalists who own the means of production, but in a subjective metamodernist perspective where everyone is the same in the economic system and seperated simply by the money they make. People who are quite rich by owning land can still be considered middle class, while someone who works a white collar job like software engineering is also considered middle class despite the huge difference in systemic role. The fact that the "middle class" landowner is rich through exploitation is neatly tucked away in a layer of capitalist utopia where everyone can also become a capitalist if they simply try very hard, and no harm will be done by you doing that.
One goal of this is to hide away and try to make Marxism forgotten and left in the past, because it is the only true socioeconomic analysis that truly explains our reality and highlights the clear class distinctions that are inherent to capitalism which it can't exist without. Only Marxism really shows the contradictions in the root of capitalism, the constant clash between the proletariat which produces everything and keeps getting more and more able to do so collectively with a common goal, and the bourgeoisie who privately own the means of production and capital in general and force the proletariat to work for them by giving them a small part of the value they create. The latter keeps becoming a smaller and smaller class that is constantly getting more disconnected with the actual production process, at the same time that the former is becoming more collective than ever and has the potential to break away and self organize to produce with the goal of giving straight to the people according to their needs instead of the capitalist's antagonistic goals.
Another goal is to perpetuate the delusion that lower working class people who don't belong to the beloved middle class, can grit their teeth and work hard enough to get there, while the rest can enjoy their position within it and rightfully ignore the suffering of the lower class since they worked for and therefore deserve their privileges.