Only in 1956 did the urban middle class achieve parliamentary representation through Robin Millhouse, who was elected to the urban middle class seat of Mitcham.
Such a political revolution is the prerequisite for everything else - reversing climate change, overcoming structural racism, rebuilding the middle class, achieving equal opportunity and upward mobility for the poor, and avoiding cataclysmic war.
Historically, we have associated democratic revolutions with rising middle classes achieving certain levels of per capita annual income — say, $10,000 — so people can worry less about basic food and housing and more about being treated as citizens with rights and with a voice in their own futures.
And the PRC's upwardly ambitious middle class has achieved critical mass.
It's also a matter of assisting the broader middle class and achieving a more fair and equitable wage distribution.
But Mr. Putin could use those voters, many of them from Russia's emerging middle class, to achieve the majority he is seeking in the first round.
"Hillary Clinton is proposing the same failed policies we have seen in the Obama economy, where the typical American household's income has declined and it's harder for businesses to hire and the middle class to achieve rising incomes," Allie Brandenburger, a Bush spokeswoman, said in a statement.
Currently in his second term as a Cincinnati City Council member, P.G. is especially interested in education and helping working and middle class families achieve financial stability -- but that's stuff you can find out by looking at his website.
China can make this shift because it has its own emerging middle class, which has achieved a reasonable level of income in the first three decades of the reform period.
Addressing generations too young to remember, the Rev. Al Sharpton, an organizer of Saturday's event, warned young people against the hubris of believing one's middle class success was achieved alone.
