affirmative action = racism
The lower and middle class were better off 50 years ago by almost any imaginable metric.
The Middle class was far better off just 2 years ago, than they are right now.
The Dems used to be the Party of the little guy, the blue collar working stiff, who invariably belonged to a Union.
Now the Dems are the Party of the Tech Billionaires, the Academic Elites and Hollywood/Celebrity Elites. They use the Teacher's Unions to indoctrinate our youth and the Government Workers Unions to increase their power base (Politicians come and Politicians go, but Bureaucrats are FOREVER.). They throw Labor Unions some bones in the form of government contracts and the Dems expect to get all the Union votes in each election cycle and they get most of them.
Despite their lip service, they only care about Minorities, when it's time to vote. If the Dems really cared about Minorities, wouldn't they have done something over the DECADES to improve inner city schools, since education is the road out of poverty? Hasn't happened, because when people aren't dependent on the Government for their subsistence, they're much harder to control.
Now we have the Radical Socialists taking over the party, like Bernie, AOC, Pocahontas and the Squad. Wokeness and Climate Change are the new religions of the Left and the drones just follow in lock step, never questioning any of the absurdities that they are expected to believe without question.
The DNC colludes with the MSM, Social Media and the Teachers Unions to ensure that all the proper dogma is disseminated to the drones. If they question the dogma, they are threatened with cancellation to keep them in line.
That's your current Democrat Party and they are spending Trillions of your tax dollars for Green initiatives, which will benefit their donors and China and have given us record Inflation.
Now Biden wants to pour some more gas on that Inflation fire by spending another half Trillion dollars trying to buy votes, by forgiving student loans. Yup, there is nothing Blue Collar workers love more than seeing their tax dollars being used to pay off the school debt of people with advanced degrees.