The ideological debate in this country is not about rich versus the poor.
Instead it is about whether the government should serve the rich or whether it should serve the rich and the middle class.
The poor? Fuck the poor.
Any scraps the poor get are despite the political efforts that occur in public, not because of them.
And that includes those of the most liberal/progressive of megaphones, the Netroots. Which is decisively tilted towards protecting the interests of the middle class, even if that means at the expense of the poor.
Want proof? The debate regarding entitlement spending vs deficit cutting tells us all we need to know.
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