A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.
No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.
A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.
The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education - today's passport to riches - is unaffordable.
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.
If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.
But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
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