Today I start

I watch the events in the US and the wider world and emotions and questions within me rise up.  I’ve never written on a public basis before, and have never had the discipline to write something each day.  This is my first attempt to catalog, and share, why I think what I think.

Some initial background:

I’m white, married with kids, and college educated.
I have a professional job and am lucky enough to be in the top 10% of income
I’m a progressive Democrat.
I’m a cradle Catholic.
My father was a unionized sheet metal worker.

I can not understand why the people in the bottom 90% of income appear to be duped and vote for politicians who favor policies that allow those at the top to get further ahead while the middle class falls further behind.  How can our politicians continually vote to shift the tax burden onto the middle class and the vast majority of the people be OK with this?