Yes, America, There Is a Class War, and You Just Lost

[workinclasszero]

Yes, America, There Is a Class War, and You Just Lost
Juan Cole Contributor

The Republican Party did not just overhaul the tax code and they did not cut “your” taxes. They engineered a coup against the middle and working classes and they threw enormous amounts of public money to private billionaires and multi-millionaires.

Americans do not understand this sort of con game because mostly they don’t understand social class. They often don’t even believe in the latter. But really, not all households in the US are equal. Some have more income than others. Some have more power than others. And as with the Trumps, that wealth and power can be passed on to the next generation.

We’re not all middle class. That would make a mockery of the word “middle,” which implies that there are lower and upper classes. Some of us are working class, some are middle class, some are upper middle class, and some are rich. Policies that help the rich by cutting their taxes do not help the working and middle classes. They actively harm the latter by making less money available for government services and by devaluing the dollar.

The Republican Party mainly represents the rich. It also reaches out to rural people and claims to help them, but it is all lies. It mainly represents the rich.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/yes-america-class-war-just-lost/

[Jamaal510]

1. We lost the battle,

but the war will rage on. All Democrats have to do is regain power and change this around. It's up to ordinary people to show up next November and vote against any incumbent who supported this tax bill. And not only that, but keep voting in subsequent elections, no matter if it's a presidential year or not.

[dalton99a]

2. Yes, it is open warfare - waged by the oligarchs

[TomSlick]

3. You want a class war, I got your class war.

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