Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
There are differences, though. The Republicans want to take money from the middle class and the Poor and give it away to the rich; the Democrats want to take money from the middle class and the rich and give it to the poor. Either way, the middle class gets squeezed, which explains the shrinking middle class in the US.
The middle class seems to have played a real important part many times in history, though. In Europe they meant that the king could join with the them against the nobility with the end of feudal times as a result (but stronger kings) if I got it all right, and it seems to me that many parties do court the middle class - hence all the (in my eyes) rather exaggerated emphasis on family values and so on.

They do get squeezed, I think that is true, but not as much as the really poor. The rich always gets the cream.