If you’re so working class, why’d you change?

Adding to my gloss about Liz Warren and the use of ‘a drop of blood’ to claim affinity in a positive way, as though that’s somehow less racist than taking ‘a drop of blood’ as a negative. The main part of her problem – offered constructively – is that she points out her working class roots but can come off poorly the more you get away from the paternalism of Boston. Funny to say that about a woman’s voice but she comes off sometimes as paternalistic in the Harvard sense that, yes, I was one of you and I know what’s best for you. I think she hits a note of ‘if you’re so working class, then why’d you change? And if you haven’t changed, then you may not have had money but you weren’t working class, were you?’ I never hear her talk without sounding Harvard. It’s the oldest trick in the world to ask for ‘ears’: I hear you, my friends, I know what you want and I’ll deliver it for you. But if you really hear me, then why do you sound like you’re talking down to me, like you never wanted to be working class, like maybe it was something you treasure mostly because you ain’t in it anymore. Offered constructively.