The Middle Class, as originally defined, consisted of doctors, lawyers, small business owners, and people of similar income level.
The scale was : working class, who worked for a paycheck; middle class, who worked for themselves; and upper class, who lived off investments rather than needing to work.
True. I was talking in the more broadly accepted sense, of those who are not on welfare up to the slightly wealthy.
The Middle Class, as originally defined, consisted of doctors, lawyers, small business owners, and people of similar income level.The Republican Party is largely made up of the middle class, buffoon.
The scale was : working class, who worked for a paycheck; middle class, who worked for themselves; and upper class, who lived off investments rather than needing to work.
I think that the best definitions are that there are “the poor” - consisting of people who are willing to accept being patronized as such by the rich, the rich, willing to patronize people who are beneath their economic level, and there are the middle class, consisting of people who do not wish to patronize anyone and who, reciprocally, reject being patronized by anyone. The Democrat Party is the party of the poor and also of the rich. The middle class needs the Republican Party to protect it politically from both the poor and the rich. Country Club Republicans don’t always seem to accept that necessity.