[misun78]

Building up socio-economic status is a straw man point here given how widespread the effects of this downturn are. It could be that parts of the middle class that are protesting may have lost their jobs or businesses and the stimulus checks don’t offset that as much as it would for lower income folks.

[kyuudou]

And our middle-class is typically just a few, if not just one, paycheck away from abject poverty.