Golly Gee, There's No Such Thing As Class Anymore!
Again, Real Cleqr Politics is either deliberately obtuse or crossing the line into gaslighting. Two pieces yesterday try to convince us that social classes are neither identifiable nor relevant, The Term Working Class Is Useless by Monica Potts at The New Republic, and Death of the Professional-Managerial Class by John Judis at Compact Magazine. Let's start with The New Republic: Our political imagination has had a hard time catching up to this reality—that someone who drives a truck (which are very expensive, by the way) and wears a trucker hat and has literal grime on their hands from work might be better off than someone who’s filing patient financial forms at a desk in a hospital’s back office. It doesn’t fit our traditional image of working-class America. That’s why so many people reach for a definition that is kind of cultural and feels right. Americans are even doing so in defining themselves. The Pew Research Center released a report just before Labor Day revealing t...