[wesselbindt]

The notion of "middle class" is a convenient propaganda piece. Turns out most folks consider themselves middle class. So as a politician, you can score easy points by saying scary stuff like "the middle class is disappearing" or "I'm here to help the middle class". The moment you start using more meaningful classifications (for example proletariat, which has a precise definition), you alienate some part of your voterbase. I guess with a term like proletariat there's also the fact that it's one of the scary words that the bad people use, which might turn off voters.

[Sohcahtoa82]

> The notion of "middle class" is a convenient propaganda piece. Turns out most folks consider themselves middle class.

Yup. I've met people living paycheck-to-paycheck, never having much more than 1 paycheck's worth of money in their bank account, that think they're middle class. Shit, I've seen people that are on food stamps that think they're middle class.

The worst part is that so many of them will vote against their own best interests because they think they'll be millionaires one day.