Oh my God THANK YOU for saying this. It's something I've been dealing with over and over again. A friend tweeted recently that progressives merely substitute the lottery of talent for the lottery of birth and I've been thinking a lot about that - about how criticism of progressives as elitist are valid, because people who claw their way up the social ladder do so clearly enjoy kicking that ladder away from the people beneath them. Lovely.

I just keep coming back to Eugene Debs: while there is a lower class, I am in it.