"nothing in the middle" is a blatant lie and hackernews discussions are much better when they are backed by facts and logical arguments rather than political clap trap.
A median says close to nothing about repartition. That's not a fact that you can use in a logical argument against your opponent's claim about repartition.
There's quite a few households and quite a lot of people between $35k and $100k. The claim that there is no middle class is blatantly, provably false. The very, very top has a lot. I don't think anybody is disputing that (I'm certainly not). But there are a lot of people who make a solid, middle class income.
The share of total national income for the middle class has been in decline for 50 years. The piece of the pie that the middle class represents is shrinking.
"nothing in the middle" is a blatant lie and hackernews discussions are much better when they are backed by facts and logical arguments rather than political clap trap.