Class War? - It is already raging!
Democrats have been accused of trying to start a class
war. When they hear this they fly to
their own defense. Trying to avoid the
label of anti-American, anti success they vigorously distance themselves from
any such notion.
It is time for Democrats to assert a new response. Democrats
and all dedicated Americans need to say,
“Yes, we are in a class war – a war started by the corporations, the
wealthy, and the republican supporters, who have acted with warlike disregard
of our nation and its people.”
The wealthy and the powerful have formed an Axis of false Americanism declaring
that the worth of a person is measured by success, especially wealth. They have asserted that there is no reason
that the Average man or woman should ever make what the corporate leader or
wealthy American makes… because the average person’s contribution is, they
suggest, “not worthy of much.” “People,
they believe, get what they deserve.”,
The wealthy and powerful justify their robber mentality and cloak it in
American Capitalism and flawed free market economic theories.
It is bad enough that they characterize the poor as lazy and
stupid. But they write off, as Romney
did, the 47% of lower income working Americans along with the poor. “Regular people with little wealth are really
just not that important.” Then the power brokers collude to keep down
employment and wages to maximize the
profit of the wealthy. They prey on the hopes and dreams of success that used
to be a real part of America, but which now are less and less possible as the
wealthy and Powerful corner opportunity.
Lotteries, reality TV, drug dealing,
crime and scams replace initiative and hard work as the best hope for
the average person to achieve success.
And now with big money they manipulate the public with massive false and
misleading advertising… and the general public falls for it!
Their approach is neither American nor beneficial to
America. The wealthy are draining and
exploiting America. They invest outside
of America, they hire outside of America when they can, and worst of all
they limit opportunity and under reward the workers they depend on. It is the wealthy who have declared class war.
The whole middle class, the worker class, the class of the people
is trapped in the rut of endless care and striving with little hope of
reward beyond a modest place to live and a big screen TV to comfort them, while
the wealthy live lives of egregious luxury – multi million dollar houses with
12 bathrooms, Yachts bought in China for millions, gold plated bathroom
fixtures, 800 dollar bottles of wine.
The top 1 percent doesn’t earn
massive wealth. They don’t work any
more hours than the average person. And
they don’t produce such great value themselves. As executives they manage workers who produce
and earn, as politicians they manipulate power and look to their own benefit
first. They sit on top of wealth and
they reap wealth from a system rigged in their favor. The wealthy get to spend more in a day, more
in a hour than the average man will spend in a year or a lifetime.
Now an army of
Americans must unite, ready to take back their country. Those who cling to their guns deceive
themselves… they will never have guns enough to take back their birth
right. Those who cling to following the
famous and get vicarious thrills from the excess of ball players and stars are
engaging in self delusion to avoid the truth of the limited piece of the
economy afforded them. Those who cling
to Religion, trusting God, are being manipulated by the great purpose of God’s
will, by manipulators who try to equate Capitalism and market economy to Jesus’
love. Jesus NEVER, extolled the virtures
of Capitalism or Weapons. And those who
are just bewildered and discouraged by the apparent impossibility of finding
opportunity, success or power, are living lives often describe as “quiet
desperation.”
And there are millions and millions and millions who could
unite and stand up for their rights.
Turn out the politicians, and break the strangled hold of the wealthy. Not in a war with guns and bombs; that is a
formula for getting slaughtered. No, the
people must fight with the means given by the Founding Fathers, and still not
completely disassembled by the power brokers.
Unite with the political forces that oppose unbridled, exploitative and
dishonest strategies of the wealthy.
Stand up. It is time for a new Civil Rights movement…
not to enfranchise a minority, but to validate, and enfranchise all citizens –
your family, your neighbors, your friends, your co-workers.
