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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, and trying to get this back on track after the tangent above....

Let me explain more. The Democrats are being seen now as the party of the upper-middle class and the Republicans are seen more as helping out those with middle and working class incomes - a complete 180 - in terms of their voting patterns.. But because so many people are highly compensated (in cities, at least), they are losing track of just what middle income constitutes, and in doing so, unknowingly alienate those voters.

[b]For example, I was at a Democratic fundraiser and there were a group of us chatting. One man remarked how how teachers earn only $80,000, and said "who can live on that?" The assumption was that wFe all earned much more. But one person in the group, previously all smiles and chatty, got very quiet, and within a minute she walked away. (She wasn't that young, either, maybe 40.) it just came out sounding so, well....snobby.
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I feel it is possible that she did not earn $80,000, and the man's remark showed this lack of awareness. It is that type of insensitivity that I believe makes middle income earners feel "invisible" and perhaps why some of them voted for Trump.[/quote]

What an idiot.[/quote]

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