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DOCTOR ZERO: WHY THE MIDDLE CLASS IS FRUSTRATED: The middle class is the great enemy of collecti?

By Glenn Reynolds

DOCTOR ZERO: WHY THE MIDDLE CLASS IS FRUSTRATED:

The middle class is the great enemy of collectivist politics . . . Only they have the combination of voting power, money, and economic self-interest to see the growth of government as undesirable, and provide effective resistance. They generally view their interactions with government in a negative light ? they?ve all spent time in the Department of Motor Vehicles mausoleum, spent hours wrestling with tax forms, or been slapped with a traffic citation they don?t think they deserved. They understand the inefficiency and emotional instability of government, and instinctively resent its intrusion into their lives. . . . The middle class is a vast group in a capitalist society, which is one of the things collectivists really hate about capitalism. Its upper reaches include the entrepreneurs and small business owners that bring economic vitality. Virtually every aspect of Obama?s agenda is designed to injure or burden small businessmen, and this is no accident.

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 23, 2010 (boomark / email).