How a Rich Kid Politician Was Spun as a Working Class 'Oysterman'

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89. Typical for such candidates, there's a working class, no political experience purity requirement.

Myth that only working class can understand inequality and any political experience means a record of how one works with others, compromise and incrementalism, fundraising and other sins.

Democrats are bashed as out-of-touch wealthy elite establishment incapable of understanding inequality (exception for FDR who was a secret socialist, another myth).

If a candidate comes from a middle or upper middle class background, good schools, university, entrepreneur, worked for a presidential campaign but when deciding to run for office herself turned into a minimum wage working class outsider, then what happens when you want to write a memoir? You can't! The story isn't true. Nothing wrong with middle class! It's silly.

It's so stupid, this working class on a pedestal thing. In solidarity, revolution, okay whatever. Americans don't obsess about class.