Ok, this may be obvious to some people here, but it's something I just realized:

The whole concept of a "Middle Class" is to create a barrier between the poor and the rich. If there are more lower classes than upper classes, then it's easy to divide and conquer.

Liberals don't seem to get this. Or they do, and are dishonest...which is worse...

that is why Chlamor is always saying "Fuck the Middle Class" - it's a class that reports directly to the rich, and their function as "managers" or "police" or "teachers" is to keep the lower classes in line.

The carrot is held out to kids when they are young - if you work hard and study you too can stay (or rise to) middle class.

There is a belief in "the meritocracy" going on there - so long as the speaker is doing well they believe in the meritocracy and they will call themselves "middle class" and then say that "our" goal should be to protect this middle class. They never say expand the middle class, notice. Point out to them that there are only a handful in this "middle" and they don't care - people earned their way in, through merit, and if there are not more people actually reaching this level they are calling middle class, they will say that people could reach it - ergo, they must be lazy, or stupid or something. They refuse to recognize that there are far more applicants for these house slave positions than their are house slave positions available. But they have theirs...

When we criticize the middle class, liberals will take that as though we were trying to take away - or mock and invalidate - a trophy they won for winning a race fair and square (not to mention the prize money.) They don't mind some small and minor help being given out to other people so they might have a better chance - "I don't deny that the race is not completely fair" (but it is mostly fair, they think) "nor would I say that the system is prefect" (but it gave me my larger share of the pie, which I deserve, so it can't be all that bad) - but not to the point that they would have to give anything up, or even consider how they got what they have in a social context. "I worked hard and made sacrifices."

Middle class means house slave, and only so many slaves can live in the house and the proportion of field slaves to house slaves cannot vary. That is where nationalism comes in. Perhaps all could be house slaves in the US - providing there are millions of field slaves in other countries. So the liberal cannot conceive of expanding the middle class here without supporting imperialism being imposed over there.

Conservative middle class people are striving to become masters. Liberal middle class people are striving to be house slaves.

and at the heart of it is race and nationality.

It's 'uniquely American'. Maybe I'm wrong on that but it strikes me as being that way.

Thinking within terms of nationalism it's an easier concept to grasp - when can we forget about the billions of other people on the planet (eg the ones that the liberal middle class people like to 'help' as long as it doesn't threaten their own station in life). When we can forget that this economy that created this 'class' knows no national boundaries.

When we can forget, as Alien touches on in the OP, that the existence of a middle class requires a lower class.

How could anyone like me, who is as middle class culturally and economically as one can be, could think we 'earned' it? We are well trained to play the game, and I will likely do just fine, but I could just as easily be a casualty of the ruling class...

How people can pretend there aren't bazillions of people out there who have worked their fucking asses off and still don't have shit...

because most liberals are middle class, and don't want to lose their comfort level...(and what everybody else here said, TA especially...)

At least, not any more. There are the moderately wealthy who are getting wealthier, and everybody else, who are getting poorer.

The only middle class that exists consists of those who haven't yet joined the rich or the poor - but everybody's on their way in one of the two directions.

Are fucking wealthy.

Soros, Gates, Buffett, the technocrats...all liberals.