Saturday Political Soap Box 4

Class warfare? It exists but not in the way everybody thinks. The problem isn't the poor taking from the rich (that's almost funny). It ultimately isn't even about the rich taking from the poor (although, God knows, that goes on). It's about the people on the third and fourth tier being angry that the people on the fifth tier might take part of the pie that they've worked so hard for. Class warfare is about those in the middle doing battle with those on the bottom. Not that the rich and their media lackeys aren't ginning it up. What upsets you more? The person in line at the grocery store using food stamps and driving a Cadillac, or the rich fat cat riding around in a limousine living off the spoils of the less well-off? Well, the fat cat most often seems too remote, and well, who knows, the Horatio Alger myth lives and shines. "Oh, that could be me one day!" but going to the store and seeing someone get something for free that you had to work hard to get? That they can see and taste. Meanwhile, the wealthy are lighting up their stogies at the club, clinking their Dom Perignon and chortling about how clever they are.