[lbo-talk] What class is it?

[Wojtek S]

It's worth noting these were not the words of activists dressed in colonial
garb on their way to a Capitol Hill protest. All these participants did was
get paid to attend a focus group in or around their home towns.

For them, Greenberg notes, Washington looks nothing like the capital many
others see. Gridlock? There is no gridlock. Only a socialist steamroller
before which the Republican Party is feeble and afraid. "Evangelicals who
feel most threatened by trends embrace the Tea Party because they are the
ones who are fighting back," the report states. Republican base voters
"think they face a victorious Democratic Party that is intent on expanding
government to increase dependency and therefore electoral support."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-04/why-republicans-shut-down-the-government.html

[WS:]  So how would you classify this large segment of the US population:
Working class or bourgeoisie - certainly not the lumpenproletariat and
certainly not capitalists.

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."