Recently, Vice-President Joseph Biden observed that the middle-class has been "buried" during the past four years. Dispossessed is an adjective related to buried: one might say that the middle-class has been dispossessed of their property.
Here is an observation by F.A. Hayek from The Road to Serfdom (p. 229): "It should never be forgotten that the one decisive factor in the rise of totalitarianism (in Europe before World War II).....is the existence of a large recently dispossessed middle class".
Dispossessed, will we, Americans, embrace totalitarianism now? Or cling to freedom?
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