Historically, middle-class people had identified with upper middle-class people because they were “professional” and because they did mental work. On the other hand, middle-class and working-class people have been divided because working class people “worked with their hands”, while working class people thought middle-class people just “pushed papers around.” Regardless of these class tensions, in the past 50 years the middle class standard of living has gone straight south and they have more in common with the working class than the upper-middle class. But middle and working classes need to dump the Democratic Party that only serves the upper-middle class if we are to improve our situation.
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