The Upper Middle

Gore’s class problem

AMERICANS are at their most dishonest when they talk about class. “I’m middle class,” pollsters are told, over and over, by Americans of all social and economic backgrounds. “What about the middle class?” voters ask the candidates, who usually reply with a happy list of goodies from the federal feed bag to be passed out, the morning after Inauguration Day, to every self-proclaimed member of that all-encompassing group.