Hillary could be the final nail in the middle-class coffin.

[BainsBane]

172. I got it from the first lines of your OP

You were quite clear: "Hillary could be the final nail in the coffin of the middle class. Her plan: she is testing her popularity with women and minorities."

That clearly bothers you. Women and people of color are disproportionately poor, so in that regard many of them are not middle class. They don't earn enough to be in the category. The privilege they lack is not only gender and race but also economic, as are their concerns. No politician who seeks to appeal to those groups can ignore economic concerns.

You go ahead and blame Clinton for the decline of Unions in America. That's as good of a way to ignore the problem as possible. You clearly have no interest in any structural issues. You want to make it all about opposing this one woman from becoming president, especially one who appeals to what is actually the majority of the nation, those whose concerns you see as inferior to your own.

If you did not mean to posit a divide, then you should not have written what you did. There is no logical basis for placing the onus for deindustrialization and the decline of unions onto Clinton. These are structural issues that have been developing since the late 70s. That coffin was nailed shut some time ago. The question is why people do blame her. You showed us why. She is appealing to women and "minorities," and that truly is unacceptable for those of your mindset.

What I resent is that people of your view try to claim ownership of the term leftist. There is nothing leftist about resentment toward the majority of the people or that politicians might appeal to them. We are in fact the majority of Democratic voters.