What Concerns Us and Why

To The Editor: The major difference between the “liberal/progressive” national Democratic Party political views of those such as two of my college professor friends and those of people such as myself is that they are more concerned with and passionate about what many call “identity-politics” and “cultural-wars” issues, while I care more about the economic, bread-and-butter, and kitchen-table issues of economic and financial survival of the lower and middle classes.

I have never had the heart to tell them that perhaps their priorities are colored by the fact that they both have combined yearly incomes with their wives of over $230,000 a year, while my wife and I fall under the official Federal Government category of “Near-Poverty” (between 100%-125% of the “offical poverty line”).