Forbes Knows Why the Democrats got Hammered: Backlash Against the Creative Class

 I have to agree that some of the losses the Dems faced in the Midterms can be attributed to the backlash against the so-called Creative Classes.

Of course, few on the progressive left--more expressive of a dictatorship of the professoriate than that of the proletariat--seem likely to confront these class realities. Many will ascribe last night's disaster to the dunderheadness of the American people, or to the clever venality of the right. Certainly some tea party candidates, inexperienced and untested, did appear incapable of passing a high school civics test. But the results had less to do with Karl Rove's money than the Democrats disconnect with the middle class.

They can blame the "anger" and shady money all they want but if the Dems actually treated the Middle Class with some respect and tried to cut them some kind of deal they wouldn't have gotten slaughtered in the midterms.

The Middle Class have been hammered by the recession and the Dems were too busy with Obamacare to notice. Large and Small Business are afraid to hire more of these Middle Class people because they have no idea what their healthcare will cost or how much extra tax they will have to pay. I'm pretty sure that a member of the Creative Class once displaced would find a job far faster then a member of the Middle Class.

So in other words the Middle Class which this article pegs at 45 million souls have seen everyone else get paid except for them. They see state and government workers bailed out by the stimulus while they got $400 - $800 a year in "tax cuts." Obama kept touting tax cuts that amounted to a dinner at a nice restaurant or 1/3 of an NFL ticket more per month. Most Americans didn't even know that they got this money in the first place because it was so small.

They also saw the banksters and the Wall Street types and even autoworkers have their jobs saved by Uncle Sam just in the nick of time. However, the Middle Class has been downsized and has had their house foreclosed on and have been condescended to at every step. The Creative Class knows what is right for you Middle Class dullards.

Well, I guess you can say that the Midterms allowed those forgotten 45 million to rise up and start to get their fair share. All this class warfare that Obama engaged in has finally bit him in the ass. People finally understood that a $400 - $800 a year couldn't keep them quiet. The Dems had to pay for their inability to create a job or stimulate growth even after spending trillions of dollars.