Oh, hundred percent agreed on that piece. I know literal millionaires who think of themselves as "middle class" because, hey, *they* know people who are even *richer than that*, and let's be honest - these are the kinds of people the LPC in its current incarnation panders to. Rich people who want to be reassured that they're not the *bad…
Oh, hundred percent agreed on that piece. I know literal millionaires who think of themselves as "middle class" because, hey, *they* know people who are even *richer than that*, and let's be honest - these are the kinds of people the LPC in its current incarnation panders to. Rich people who want to be reassured that they're not the *bad* rich people.
I think you make a good point about glossing over the distinctions, too. Liberals tend to accept the premise that Paul Martin's kid and Frank Morneau's kid were economic geniuses---hey, who knows more about money than a rich guy?
On the other hand, I've found the Ontario NDP under Andrea Horwath and Marit Stiles...not quite as annoying in *how* they pander, but also kind of centrist and pandering. So I agree with you that I'd love for the Liberals to have *more* class consciousness, but I don't know if the NDP has that much either.
I guess you'd call me one of those "working to join it" types---I came from a middle-class family growing up, am middle-class now, but was poor in my twenties and thirties. Not "very little left over after paying the mortgage and maxing out the RRSP" poor - *poor* poor. I've never felt like the NDP gave much of a damn about me (or the Liberals, or the Conservatives). Honestly, I think the closest thing we've had to a politician with any kind of sympathy for actual poor people has been Jean Chretien - and even he was more of a "would give somebody a dollar while walking past them on the way to an event at the Empire Club" guy, right?
Oh, hundred percent agreed on that piece. I know literal millionaires who think of themselves as "middle class" because, hey, *they* know people who are even *richer than that*, and let's be honest - these are the kinds of people the LPC in its current incarnation panders to. Rich people who want to be reassured that they're not the *bad* rich people.
I think you make a good point about glossing over the distinctions, too. Liberals tend to accept the premise that Paul Martin's kid and Frank Morneau's kid were economic geniuses---hey, who knows more about money than a rich guy?
On the other hand, I've found the Ontario NDP under Andrea Horwath and Marit Stiles...not quite as annoying in *how* they pander, but also kind of centrist and pandering. So I agree with you that I'd love for the Liberals to have *more* class consciousness, but I don't know if the NDP has that much either.
I guess you'd call me one of those "working to join it" types---I came from a middle-class family growing up, am middle-class now, but was poor in my twenties and thirties. Not "very little left over after paying the mortgage and maxing out the RRSP" poor - *poor* poor. I've never felt like the NDP gave much of a damn about me (or the Liberals, or the Conservatives). Honestly, I think the closest thing we've had to a politician with any kind of sympathy for actual poor people has been Jean Chretien - and even he was more of a "would give somebody a dollar while walking past them on the way to an event at the Empire Club" guy, right?