The Tea Party is the national voice of the private-sector middle class—despite the demonizations heaped upon it by public-policy elites whose own judgment and competence leave much to be desired.Siegel argues that the Democrats are a top-bottom coalition in opposition to the middle class, which is now represented by the Republicans. He predicts:
Middle-class decline should be front and center in 2012, which is shaping up as a firestorm of an election. It's likely to be a bitter contest, in which the polarized class interests of those who identify with the growth of government and those who are being undermined by its expansion face off without the buffer of mutual goodwill.For decades the middle class had a good thing going in this country. Siegel writes about what is trying to destroy that "good thing" nationally as it has already done in New York.
BTW, the distinction of "private-sector middle class" above is an important one, don't ignore it. A lot of the remaining middle class today works for various levels of government. It is to their economic advantage to vote Democrat.
