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My jaw dropped.

Deval Patrick’s DNC speech -

The poor are in terrible shape. But the middle class are one paycheck away, one serious illness away from being poor.

I see this attitude a lot. It’s like, the poor are poor and that sucks but they’ll always be poor, and obviously if they’re poor they deserve it, oh well! But now the middle class are impacted, and that’s a real issue! The middle class don’t deserve to be poor, now we need to fix things!

ETA: The transcript of the speech has him saying “and.” So while it wasn’t intentional, I think it a pretty appropriate slip!

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