As far as I'm concerned, over the last 50 years Labour have continued to undermine the working class, the backbone of our once great, once sovereign country.
Rauner has tied any budget agreement to winning portions of his pro-business, anti-union agenda that Democrats argue will undermine the middle class.
In his Radio 4 series last year the philosopher John Gray argued something similar, observing that, although Marx was right in predicting that capitalism would eventually undermine the middle-class lifestyle, thus descending ever more of us ("the 99%") into wage slavery, he was "wrong about communism".
President Obama must forcefully condemn this malicious campaign to undermine the American middle class.
Diem was reluctant to cut the currency rate, arguing that it would diminish the value of US aid to South Vietnam and undermine the urban middle class support for his regime as they would resent the loss of their cheap consumer and luxury goods.
One conservative blogger deplored the rampant inflation undermining the middle class, saying it forced girls into prostitution to support their families.
He loathed the economic measures adopted in the 1990s by the first Russian president, Boris N. Yeltsin, saying that they had concentrated wealth in the hands of oligarchs and undermined the middle class.
Even her close advisers worried that her push to stanch inflation, sell off nationalized industry and deregulate the economy was devastating the poor, undermining the middle class and courting chaos.
A more charitable view holds that menswear has undermined the outmoded class hierarchy of men's fashion, which forced men either to dress like "the man" or to stick it to him, sartorially speaking.
But they've done nothing to change the vicious cycle of wealth and power that has rigged the economy for the benefit of those at the top, and undermined the working class.
