What are you guys, European?
Are you feeling proletariat today, or bourgeois?
Why accept the definitions of communists and "progressives" that are stuck in the rut of provably false assumptions?
Why buy into the Obamaites class envy tactics and rhetoric in any way shape or form? The Obamaites are just the old and tired voices of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky - nothing new there at all.
Americans don't have "classes" because they have minimal barriers to move from one wealth category to another, from one social category to another, through their own good efforts. Unlike old Europe and a lot of other societies with their blind faith in socialism, imposed stratification and worse.
Here you can be rich one day and poor the other. You can be poor today and a millionaire another.
The real distinctions are only two:
Naturally talented or not
and
Good work ethic or not
And I would argue that not being naturally talented is not even that much of a limiting factor.
Poor means you haven't made it yet, or have accepted mediocrity. Middling means you have a way to go yet, or you have become comfortable. Rich means that you still have to keep making enough to keep an increasingly redistributionist government from taking away all that you have and are facing very tough competitors.
Are there social classes? Sure, but you can break into any of those if you really want to.
But why would you? It is like putting on a Halloween mask and role playing. Fun for a while, but the fun only lasts if you are a poseur at heart.
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