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The middle-class is the mainstay of most human modern societies… it does not mind being ruled by whoever — democratic lunacy, despots, psychopathic decrees, tyrants, dictators and authoritarians — as long as the honest people of the honest middle-class can make a honest buck from a honest day of honest hard work. If the illusion of honesty unravels then the whole edifice of social cohesion, even peppered with amusing diversity, will collapse… Peace at home is often achieved by the rest of the world being on fire, but this is the honest privilege of ignorance of where moneys come from. 

The rulers have their armies sent to plunder and ransack and rape the world, while the middle-class is whitewashed by their clarions, religious and mediatic, claiming the filtered righteousness of the mess that eventually percolates to the honest people of the honest middle-class doing a honest day of honest hard work…

The middle-class relies on poetic and romantic ignorance of the trees being felled to make its beautiful furniture items. As well, the middle-class relies on borrowings (serviceable debt) to finance the honest lifestyle....

There is an ultimate proportion of middle-classers versus the lower-class and the upper class, though depending on circumstances, the fluidity of the middle-class is upwardly or downwardly mobile. the middle-class provides most of the TAX REVENUES…. On this score, governments love the middle-class...

We, the Gus of this world, are middle-class jokers, troubadours and Voltairian activists that provide the songs and narratives predicting the death of the middle-class that never dies.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

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A DEFINITION:

What Is the Middle Class? 

The middle class is a socioeconomic category used to describe people and families with incomes that fall into the median range for the geographic area they live in. The definition is not precise, but generally, middle-class people in the United States viewed as having sufficient means to live a comfortable lifestyle:

 
  • Are white-collar professionals or run their own businesses
  • Tend to have college degrees
  • May own their own homes
  • Have adequate health insurance
  • Have some disposable income after all basic needs are met
  • Are saving toward retirement

In the U.S., people and households are often categorized as working class, middle class, or upper class. Calculations vary widely, but more than half of Americans are usually classified as middle class.

Pew Research Center. “Are You in the American Middle Class? Find Out with Our Income Calculator.”

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS
  • The middle class is a socioeconomic strata that falls in between the working class and the upper class.
  • The middle class constitutes about half of the U.S. population, but it has shrunk over nearly half a century.
  • Those in the middle class have enough disposable income to afford minor luxuries like vacations or restaurants but rely on borrowing for big-ticket items like homes and cars.
The Mid-Level Caste

In India’s traditional caste system, the mid-level caste was made up of farmers, traders, and merchants. The lowest caste designation, that of the “untouchables,” was abolished in 1950.

Understanding the Term "Middle Class" 

The well-being of the middle class is a powerful motivator in American politics, and policies addressing their economic welfare are a cornerstone of political debate. 

Today’s middle-class families tend to own their own homes (although with a mortgage), own a car (with a loan or lease), send their kids to college (although with student loans or scholarships), are saving to retire, and have enough disposable income to enjoy some luxuries like dining out and vacations.

 https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/middle-class.asp 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

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we have advanced our backward thinking with critical supply of nuko-warthingies....

deep state agent......

Antony Blinken spent his last two weeks in office giving media interviews defending his record as America’s top ‘diplomat’. But it was under Blinken’s watch that the US sparked the worst security crisis in Europe since WWII, and fueled the most severe fighting between Jews and Palestinians since Israel’s creation in 1948. Let’s review his legacy.

The New York Times revealed over the weekend that Blinken rejected a proposal in late 2022 by Joint Chiefs chairman Milley to push for peace talks in Ukraine, and argued with generals in favor of sending more advanced weapons to Kiev.

Blinken was one of the main architects of the Ukraine conflict – which could have been stopped in the spring of 2022, or averted entirely if the Biden administration didn’t pigheadedly insist on NATO membership for Ukraine, which Russia warned was its red line.

In late 2021, as Kiev amassed troops near the Donbass, prompting mirror moves from Moscow, Blinken spoke to Ukraine’s foreign minister to assure him of NATO’s “unwavering commitment.”

Months later, after fighting began, Blinken's State Department joined with other Biden administration agencies and the Pentagon in supporting the Ukrainian crisis's escalation into a full-blown NATO proxy war against Russia, complete with hundreds of billions of dollars in military aid to Kiev, CIA and military advisors and foreign mercenaries engaged in the conflict zone and operating advanced Western NATO weapons systems, and intelligence support.

The Kiev regime “threw [the peace deal] into the dustbin of history,” President Putin said in mid-2023, confirming then long-running reports that Moscow and Kiev were on the verge of a deal after talks in Belarus and Istanbul, Turkiye weeks into the conflict before NATO's intervention to kill it.

 

Gaza Bloodbath

In October 2023, in response to a surprise Hamas-led incursion into Gaza, Israel launched its deadliest-ever attack on Palestinians in Gaza.

“We will always be there by your side,” Blinken vowed, standing in Tel Aviv alongside Prime Minister Netanyahu just days after the war began.

He was true to his word. From late 2023 and mid-2024 alone, the US sent Israel 14,000+ MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 6,500 500-pound bombs, and an array of other munitions.

The same month, a rights monitor calculated that Israel had dropped over 70,000 tons of bombs on the 365 km2 Strip, more than the combined tonnage dropped on Dresden, Hamburg and London in all of WWII.

Blinken could have pressured his boss to turn off the taps on arms for Israel, which would have ended fighting in weeks. Instead, the State Department spent fifteen months talking about peace talks (which were actually spearheaded by other countries) as Gaza burned.

 

War Worldwide, Inc.

Besides Ukraine and Gaza, whose combined death toll is now in the hundreds of thousands, Blinken has led or signed off on an array of other escalatory and aggressive US foreign policy decisions.

 

Wrecking Trump’s face-to-face diplomacy-based efforts to improve ties between the US and North Korea within weeks after Biden's inauguration in 2021, Blinken’s State Department negotiated a new tripartite security pact with South Korea and Japan aimed squarely against Pyongyang.

 

Fueling tensions in the East and South China Sea against China, Blinken escalated US bilateral alliance-based efforts to hem China into its home shores using the classic ‘island chain strategy’, vowed to ramp up support for Taiwan, and negotiated the anti-Beijing AUKUS security pact between the US, the UK and Australia.

 

Ramping up the confrontation against Iran and its Axis of Resistance allies, the US provided support to Tel Aviv during the back-to-back Iran-Israel missile and airstrikes, launched an air and naval campaign against Yemen’s Houthis, and facilitated the continuation of the long-running dirty war in Syria, culminating in the toppling of the Assad government in late 2024.

 

Blinken’s State Department was instrumental in US involvement in burning conflicts across Africa, from Ethiopia and Libya to the Sahel, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

 

It also continued the tradition of low-key US efforts to institute regime change in countries perceived as disloyal to US interests, from Nicaragua and Bangladesh to Serbia and Georgia.

Blinken’s record, while ruthless, isn’t surprising, given his active support as he rose through the ranks in his diplomatic career for the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the 2011 NATO aerial assault on Libya, which turned that country into a failed state, and the start of the war against Syria in 2011.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20250120/secretary-of-forever-wars-antony-blinkens-blood-soaked-legacy-1121472986.html

 

SEE ALSO: https://sputnikglobe.com/20250113/blinken-exploited-bidens-senility-and-brought-us-to-brink-of-nuclear-war--scott-ritter-1121418995.html

 

SEE ALSO: https://yourdemocracy.net/drupal/node/53946

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SINS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

 

MOST OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS LIKED BLINKEN FOR HE PROVIDED THE ILLUSIONS NECESSARY FOR THE "PEACE AT HOME" SYNDROME...