&gt; <i>the campaign planned to “shy away from the characterization ‘middle class’ — because, her advisers say, the term no longer connotes a stable life</i><p>This should infuriate everyone who reads this. Somehow being an average, in the <i>middle</i> of the income scale, means that the <i>majority of Americans</i> should expect an unstable life. That seems so wrong on so many levels.