[drwicked]

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

Commonly misattributed

[archagon]

Incidentally, I recently found a similar sentiment expressed in a book from 1937: http://ask.metafilter.com/314056/Temporarily-Embarrassed-Mil...