Can we finally acknowledge that it's class warfare?

[Coventina]

The exploiters are out of control.

As one of the exploited, I'm getting more and more angry and hopeless.

Why is it only called class warfare when we rise up?
They've been waging war on us for at least the last two centuries.

[misanthrope]

1. Always has been

Poverty is original sin in America.

[LoisB]

2. You are not alone. I haven't given up hope yet. So long as I am breathing, I will

fight and hope.

[orthoclad]

3. Nope, that's "heated rhetoric".

[MerryBlooms]

4. Way out of control, nothing to stop them

I warned my fellow caregivers who do live-in care, about the latest cruel policy proposal.

Homecare workers through the state Medicaid system, at least here in Oregon, $20 ish an hour. Really,? Homecare "fraud" is the issue getting attention, while trump and his minions are scheming 100s of millions per minion, Not including his grifter kids!

Heating and cooling subsidies slashed. Food assistance, slahed. Public transportation, slashed. Every person I know who relies on some assistance, got cut. My client was cut from $220 a month ebt, to $80. This is not sustainable and just down right cruel.

I haven't lost hope yet, but these rich bastards running our country are giving it their best shot.

[erronis]

5. There have to be the "haves" and the "have nots". And you, my friends, are the "have nots"

I didn't start this as a George Carlin quote but it sure sounds like it now.

He saw the game clearly and early. So did the Smothers Brothers. Just like the fine comedians of today.

[patphil]

6. This is a class war, a race war, and eventually a gender war.

It's white supremacy at it's ugly worst. It's rich white men trying to seize the reigns of power permanently. It's an attempt to turn the calendar back over100 years, to the time of Jim Crow and the KKK , and also to the time before women could vote.

The latter part will come if white supremacists are successful in ending our Constitutional Democratic Republic.
Gerrymandering permanent control of the House is only the start.

[Jack Valentino]

7. Republicans think 'class warfare' is tax increases on the rich,

and ONLY tax increases on the rich!

But YES, this is definitely class warfare against the middle class and the poor,
when they are literally taking food out of poor people's mouths!

[Mme. Defarge]

8. I logged in

to rec. this.

[JoseBalow]

10. I logged in

to post this comment.

[betsuni]

9. "What seemed like a problem to liberals -- the fact that conservatives identify 'up' with the 1 percent,

the planter class -- was actually a source of pride to the Tea Party people I came to know. It showed you were optimistic, hopeful, a trier. It wasn't a problem that you seldom looked behind you in line. Why would you want to blame a guy if he got all the way to the top? they wondered. That gaze forward, even when matters seemed hopeless, was a feature of the brave deep story itself."

Arlie Russell Hochschild, "Strangers in Their Own Land"

The "hard-working" successful wealthy are part of the "Us" for the Republican voter in the right-wing populist Us vs Them.

[usonian]

11. The oligarchs have baited the people they exploit most to support their thievery.

Fascist playbook.

People will sell their souls, their dignity, opportunity, jobs, education and a future to "get even" with the people
THAT THE OLIGARCHS TAUGHT THEM TO HATE.

[sunflowerseed]

12. Agreed!!

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Capitalism's Invisible Army

CT

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