but you know what’s really incredible? the more i think over this clip?

you can tell he doesn’t even realize how much he’s exposing himself and the rest of his movement here. he thinks he’s bragging about being a Salt Of The Earth Middle Class Guy.

because you can tell that in his worldview, business owners- guys who own car dealerships, auto shops, restaurants, etc- are Hard Working Job Creators. the employees of those businesses though? the people who actually generate the value those businesses profit off of? well, we’re barely even human in his worldview. why, we don’t even create jobs. we merely work at the jobs he and the rest of his class so graciously create for us.

like there’s such a huge gulf between what he think’s he’s saying when he says “we’re the business owners” and what he’s actually saying.

This is my problem with the more or less meaningless term ‘middle class’. It obscures the meaning of class from ‘relationship to the means of production’ to ‘a vague sense of your income level’.

It allows business owners and landlords to be in the same ‘class’ as working class people who earn relatively high wages. And professional working class people as well as high-earning working class people will even start to support bourgeois interests, while owners of means will consider themselves ‘salt of the earth’.