Class Warfare

We've been hearing the terms "class warfare" and "Class evny" frequently lately, and we probably aren't finished with them. Invariably we hear them from conservatives. Why? Because everytime someone points out the enormous difference in wealth between America's rich and America's poor, the messenger is accused of being envious, or trying to start a war. This accusatin always comes from conservatives who have chosen their side.

Unfortunaely, the absurdity of this assertion never precludes it promulgation.

It might be helpful to distinguish between creating a situation, and reporting a situation which already exists. The disparity in wealth exists. Simply saying so does not cause it to occur. Anyone looking for class warfare might revisit the French Revolution of the late eigtheenth century, the Russian Revolution of the early twentieth century, or the Bonus march in Washington D.C. in 1932.

Today's class war is tame by comparison. Tame, but extant. Fortunately our American class war is, thus far, confined to arguing about tax rates and job pay. So long as income tax rates are lower for investors than for police officers and teachers, so long as professional athletes earn millons of dollars a year and cops and teachers struggle to pay their bills, the word war is likely to continue.

There are traitors on both sides. The millions of lower middle class Americans who cry "class envy", and people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who favor higher taxes for the wealthy and greater economic equality, have abandoned their own people.

Our current class war is a mere hint of what it could later become.

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