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Reader question: Please explain this headline: Hillary Clinton ad: ‘Reshuffle the Deck and Rebuild the Middle Class’. My comments: The deck originally refers to a pile of playing cards stacked in a random order. In card games, before dealing out the cards to each member, the dealer reshuffles the deck – by mixing the cards randomly – so that nobody knows what sets of cards they’ll get in the next game. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nomination for President, wants to reshuffle the deck and rebuild the middle class. That is to say that if she wins the presidency, she will make changes in policy that will enable the middle class to fare better in the next few years. In other words, by reshuffling the proverbial economic, political and social deck, she wants to give the middle class a better deal. Or a better shake, as though she were playing with dice. In plainer words, she wants to give the middle class a better hand (of cards). With better cards in hand, the middle class will hopefully play a better game – live better lives. As we know, the way the world is going, the ultra rich are the only ones reaping the rewards of economic success. In America, they’re called the 1%, i.e. the top one percent of the population. The middle class, on the other hand, are not making more money. Neither do the rest of the population, the under class, of course. | 
