Are we in a class war?
As the old saying goes:
Once is an incidence
You’ll remember that the first thing the Bush Administration did when they took office is push a law through Congress that gave a huge tax break to the rich and forced the middle class and the poor to shoulder a larger portion of the tax burden
Twice is coincidence
Bush is now launching a “reform” of social security, which is designed to gut the program by taking money out of it and putting it into private accounts, thus making the shortfall worse, not better
Three times is Enemy Action:
The Bush Administration and the Republican Congress is pushing through bankruptcy reforms that will make it much harder and more expensive for poor people to declare bankruptcy. They’ll owe more money to their wealthy creditors and their wealthy lawyers
Four times is BOHICA*:
4) The Republican Congress and the Bush Administration have pushed through a bill limiting damages on lawsuits to $250,000. One is reminded of the scene in “A Tale of Two Cities” when a nobleman’s carriage runs over a child in the street, killing him, and the nobleman in the carriage “compensates” the grieving parents by tossing a few coins out the window.
It’s obvious … the Class War is ON my friends, and it’s been on for the five years, more if you count all the things the Republicans were doing when they didn’t control the White House. The wealthy and their advocates have been making a concerted attack on the middle class and the poor. The war is on big time now and you’ve voted to give your opponents ALL the best weapons. As a voter, you belong on the special bus.
The middle class and the poor aren’t fighting back. And whenever some worthy such as myself proposes that we DO fight back, THAT’S when the conservatives cry “class warfare.” It’s total hypocrisy but I absolutely cannot blame conservatives for thinking you will fall for such an obvious ploy, considering what you’ve ALREADY demonstrated you’ll fall for.
And don’t give me that guff about 911 scaring you into voting Republican despite the economic damage you KNOW they are doing. I guess I’ll address you in the way such a claim indicates you need to be addressed: “Awwww, did bad ol’ Dubya scare widdums by showing you the picture of the bad ol’ nasty man with the beard who blew up a building? Did that scare widdums so bad widdums hadda mortgage away widdums’ children’s future? Oooooh, poor baby, losing widdum’s ability to think and reason all of a sudden like dat. Must be AWFUL!”
Hey, you’re in a class war whether you like it or not. Right here. Right now. The only question is whether or not you are going to fight back. Maybe it WILL make wealthy conservatives and their defenders mad, but this business of trying to subdue them by going after their fists with your face – which is exactly what voting Republican is all about if you’re poor or middle class – is not working.
I am sorry, but if you are poor or middle class and vote Republican for any national office in the next election, you are a damned fool. There is no nice way to say it. But hey, it’s not so bad because you’re already a damned fool for voting for Bush in 2004. You were warned. Everybody knew it would happen. Didn’t stop you though, did it? You damned fool.
*Bend Over, Here It Comes Again