America, the Land of the Deceived

Can it really be happening?  Do we actually hear that taboo word, "Class", in conjunction with our beloved America, Land of the Deceived?  

Of course we have said for many years, Working Class, Middle Class, and Upper Class.  But we never actually believed that these were separate and distinct Classes.  Not like the Cast System in India.  Why in America folks could move freely from one class to another.  But of course we were fooling ourselves.  Few moved from working or middle class upward to the Upper Class.  In recent times the opposite has been true, people dropping down the ladder from one class to the next and on into the newly emerging Poverty Class.  And if you thought it was hard to move from Middle Class to Upper Class, leaving the Poverty Class is fast becoming impossible. 

It is, in fact, this new expanding Poverty Class that is sounding the wake up call to the fact that we do now, and always have had distinct classes. 

In the past we could do very little about our class structure because it is difficult to impact something that is not recognized as real. 

But it's beginning to look as if the times they are a changing. 

 

Curious Carl