For the last 40 years the American working class has been disappearing and the rich have been getting richer.
What exactly do you figure Bernie is talking about? Working class is sometimes used to denote blue-collar workers, especially factory workers.
Very few people loved factory jobs when they were a big part of the American economy-instead, you got movies like Modern Times, which portrayed working on an assembly line as torture and degradation.
Maybe Bernie is talking about the "Middle class" when he breaks the decades-old news that the rich are getting richer.
Rose divvied Americans into five income groups; the poor at $0 to 29,999; the lower middle class, from $30,000 to $49,999; the middle class, from $50,000 to $99,999; the upper middle class, from $100,000 to $349,999; and the rich, $350,000 and up.
Meanwhile during that period the percent of Americans in the middle-middle class, the lower middle class and the poor fell from 38.8 to 32 percent, 23.9 to 17.1 percent and 23.4 to 19.8 percent respectively.
Like Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders is a populist whose rhetoric is intended to rile up people who feel like they are being taken to the cleaners by various elites.
https://reason.com/2019/08/14/bernie-sanders-is-right-that-the-working-class-is-shrinking-hes-wrong-to-suggest-thats-a-bad-thing/
What exactly do you figure Bernie is talking about? Working class is sometimes used to denote blue-collar workers, especially factory workers.
Very few people loved factory jobs when they were a big part of the American economy-instead, you got movies like Modern Times, which portrayed working on an assembly line as torture and degradation.
Maybe Bernie is talking about the "Middle class" when he breaks the decades-old news that the rich are getting richer.
Rose divvied Americans into five income groups; the poor at $0 to 29,999; the lower middle class, from $30,000 to $49,999; the middle class, from $50,000 to $99,999; the upper middle class, from $100,000 to $349,999; and the rich, $350,000 and up.
Meanwhile during that period the percent of Americans in the middle-middle class, the lower middle class and the poor fell from 38.8 to 32 percent, 23.9 to 17.1 percent and 23.4 to 19.8 percent respectively.
Like Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders is a populist whose rhetoric is intended to rile up people who feel like they are being taken to the cleaners by various elites.
https://reason.com/2019/08/14/bernie-sanders-is-right-that-the-working-class-is-shrinking-hes-wrong-to-suggest-thats-a-bad-thing/
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