Republicans are the enemy; our generals suck.

[BainsBane]

108. I addressed that kind of dismissal

of the interests of the majority of Americans in this thread. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026535531

Firstly, 1 vs. 99 percent isn't a class. It's a neoliberal, media fabrication that masks real class differences. It's particularly convenient for the top 10-20 percent who like to pretend their rights trump the majority of Americans who have never had the kind of wealth and privilege the white upper-middle class is so angry that they have recently started to see erode.

I understand that people who grow up with privilege believe themselves entitled to speak for the rest of us who don't count, but when they insist they rather than we are the only ones who know what's best for us, in that regard, they are much like bankers. They always think they know what is best for the people, but the fact is they never do because the one thing they refuse to do is acknowledge that the less-privileged have a right to articulate their own concerns.

That kind of elitist attitude that excludes the majority from the body politic is precisely what classism is all about. You are entitled to speak for yourself, but you have no right, no right to assume you know what is best for me and others who, as you can see in the linked thread, are fed up with having their lives so contemptuously dismissed.