class war

[dano]

The righties are still objecting to the "demonization of rich people
creating a class war" (heard it again this morning from a Heritage
Foundation troll).

We need to slap this one back every time it comes back. It's bugging the
heck out of me.

The class war is being propagated from the top down in policies that are
targeted to increase the wealth gap. It is being conducted as a "stealth
war" because conservatives use rhetoric that denies this is happening (or
if acknowledging it is happening, that it is anything but "the natural
state of the world").

When progressives call them out on it, they claim "class war" but the war
is the *action*, not the *rhetoric*. Sticks and stones will break my
bones. *That's* a war.

The divide-inducing policies are the war, and the rhetoric is just calling
it what it is. If conservatives don't want a class war, all they have to
do is stop bringing it. But they want to have it and then point the finger
at others for it.

It's as dishonest as they come.

Don't let them get away with it.

[Jim W]

The wealthy classes are now making war on each individuals most
reasonable expectations: that he can hold a job that will feed, house
and clothe his family.