{"id":5730,"date":"2011-11-03T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T20:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5730"},"modified":"2011-11-03T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T20:14:13","slug":"hey-fox-news-we-didnt-start-the-class-war-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5730","title":{"rendered":"HEY FOX NEWS: We Didn’t Start The Class War Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The top headline today on Fox Nation is a conspicuously slanderous lie (as opposed to their conventional slanderous lies): Oakland on Fire: Obama Gets Class War He Asked For.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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First of all, not only has Obama never asked for a class war, he has never even expressed support for the Occupy movement that the Fox Nationalists are inferring is a class war. This has been a disappointment to progressives who want the President to go beyond acknowledging the frustration of the protesters and the 99% of the nation whom they represent.<\/p>\n

More importantly, the class war theme has been beaten to death by right-wingers intent on blaming the American people for the obscene economic disparity that is the work of wealthy corporations and their benefactors in Congress. If the elitist One-Percenters are afraid (and they should be) of the rampaging hordes approaching their villas with torches and pitchforks, then they should stop behaving like robber barons and start acting like patriots. They should care more about their country and fellow citizens than they do about hoarding wealth, ripping people off, and destroying the economy.<\/p>\n

As Billy Joel said (sort of), “We didn’t start the [class war] fire,”<\/em> but we’ll be more than happy to finish it, and we will prevail. Revolution is in our DNA. It’s how we gained liberty from lords and monarchs a couple of hundred years ago, and we will do it again. And this time many of the lords are actually on our side. The enemy isn’t really the Upper Crusties, it’s the conservative media and politicians acting on behalf of a minority of ultra-rightist neo-fascists (and that is not a reference to Hitler, but to the actual definition of fascism, which Mussolini called “corporatism.”<\/em>). With respect to the foregoing, the best thing I can do in response is to just reprise an article I wrote a few days ago on this very subject:<\/p>\n

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CLASS WAR VICTORY! The Wealthy Have Surrendered, So Who\u2019s Still Fighting?<\/a><\/p>\n

“Conservatives say if you don’t give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they’ve lost all incentive because we’ve given them too much money.” ~ George Carlin<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The national debate triggered by the Occupy Wall Street protests has given the wealth gap a renewed focus in the public arena. And with good reason. That gap is wider today than it was just prior to the Great Depression; wider, in fact, than it has ever been. The brutality of that economic disparity has thrust our nation into a bitter and persistent recession. But it has also inspired millions of Americans to step forward and demand reforms that not only restore fairness, but readjust the balance of political power.<\/p>\n

Conservatives regard this new activism as a declaration of class war. But it’s important to note that they only call it war when we fight back. The war was already in progress and, as Warren Buffett said, “We (the rich) are winning.”<\/em> Now a new survey reveals that Buffett is not the only one-percenter that is fighting on our side. The Wall Street Journal<\/a> (ironically) is reporting that…<\/p>\n

“A new survey from Spectrem Group found that 68% of millionaires (those with investments of $1 million or more) support raising taxes on those with $1 million or more in income. Fully 61% of those with net worths of $5 million or more support the tax on million-plus earners.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We can also count Bill Gates amongst the one-percenters who advocate more progressive taxes.<\/p>\n