Reply #21: Here's what I wrote in another post, that I thought I included in this post: [View All]

[Political Heretic]

It say pretty much exactly what you said. So no, I don't accept charge of stereotyping. Please read below:

Bourgeois Underground is run by white upper middle class people, and populated in overwhelming numbers by white upper middle class members. This is something you can virtually guarantee.

As far as class warfare goes, just because someone is middle class, or upper middle class, or wealthy does not make them bad people. And just because someone is working class or poor does not make them good people.

But it is hard to deny that there is a great temptation among the upper middle class to identify in actions and opinions with the rulers rather than the people.

We should be honest about the fact that upper middle class persons face a special sort of challenge, and lots of pressures to end up being lapdogs of privileged interests rather than stand in solidarity with ordinary people. It is easy to loose tough with the realities of the working class and poor. Privilege can breed complacency. It takes conscious effort to resist those forces.

And its very necessary to point out the class component that goes into DU's modern trend away from a place that reflects and views and interests of the working class and poor, and toward a place that reflects the views of the powerful and privileged.

It's different than some conservative place. Where some conservative place might completely hug corporations, the insurance industry, etc., establishment democrats still speak form one side of their mouth against corporate exploitation of people, but at the same reflect a timidity and unwillingness to stand in solidarity with the poor, for fear of risking all the status and comforts they already have.

"Class" is a state of mind, not an income amount. You can stand in solidarity with the poor and with working Americans, or you can be a mouthpiece of the interests of the privileged and powerful. But you can't do both.

Race is something else that has a huge influencing factor... but I'm out of time. :P