Ain't that the truth. That's exactly what we're seeing now! And it ain't the first time we've seen this happen in recent history, either. When a large and prosperous middle class suddenly finds itself in a world of diminishing expectations, a shrinking economy or a period of national decline and vanishing influence, they are not about to blame their problems on the greed and mismanagement of the ownership caste they aspire to join, vague and impersonal historical and social forces operating in the background, and certainly not on their own laziness and lack of ambition and grit. They are going to blame it all on foreigners, traitors, immigrants, or inferior races and creeds who are out to steal their stuff, and some mysterious intellectual elite that is turning those enemies against them. Inevitably, demagogues will arise to mobilize those people by giving them conspiracies and scapegoats and promising them easy solutions to their problems.

We have all been here before. Fascism is the dictatorship of the middle class.