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gulliver

(13,863 posts) Sat Feb 21, 2026, 03:03 PM Yesterday

Blue pencil note on the term "middle class" [View all]

I don't know whether it was an oversight, but I've seen at least one Dem or Dem-aligned spokesperson leave "middle-class" out of the correct phrase, "working- and middle-class."

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Blue pencil note on the term "middle class" [View all] gulliver Yesterday OP

Context? snot Yesterday #1

I only heard the "middle class" left out once by a leading Dem spokesperson gulliver Yesterday #3

The correct phrase? Cirsium Yesterday #2

It's "correct" in the sense of good manners and good politics. gulliver Yesterday #4

This message was self-deleted by its author W_HAMILTON 23 hrs ago #5

Are you kidding? Cirsium 22 hrs ago #6

It is, however, kind of pandering to the US consumerists myth of themselves... haele 19 hrs ago #7