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Pando.com is making a big play on this kind of class-focused journalism. Mainstream outlets will do it from time to time, but mostly as a sideshow to the conventional liberalism of the Red/Blue culture war.

America has a lot of liberal news outlets, but not many left ones.

I am genuinely curious how this experiment will play out.

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If we keep the guy making $30k outraged at his neighbor earning $150k and we keep the guy making $150k angry at the hippy kids and then we wrap it all up in My-Team vs Your-Team two-party politics, we can keep the masses occupied and distracted.

Yep divide and rule - instead of actually addressing the real issues in SF poor planing at a to low minimum wage.

Being cynical I wonder if the influx of techies has also interrupted some ones nice political machine.

The problem is the the USA never developed a proper center left party in the European or UK model.

So now the only progressive's that get any air time are the raving fringe nutters - who chase after "castles in the air" and not real substantive issues that impact the average working stiff and include the shop worker on 30k and Googler's on 150k in the definition of working stiff

which damages everyone in the USA

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