You just have to remember the Golden Rule, EJ --

"The guy with the gold makes the rules" --

jwa1313

I'm going to have to watch Rollerball again. Didn't that movie take place in some future where corporations ran everything?

This otherwise gloomy opinion-piece contains a small glimmer of hope where it says: 'The good news is that the class war is bringing a certain clarity to politics...' And a reaffirmation '...that government has a legitimate and necessary role in making economic rules to protect individuals from abuse.'
If the anti-government forces have an unlimited resource of cash to buy promotional ads in the mainstream media, then a grassroots pro-government counter-force can assert a virtually unlimited promotion of their own views through the 'great equalizer' - the Internet (the middle class equalitarian's best friend). The wealthy corporations may 'own' the media, but the grassroots own the Internet. Use it! Express your own views through the Internet - and bypass the cash-greedy media that has chosen to befriend the anti-government interests.

My feeling is that we need Johnson/Truman style of tough leadership. As when they sat down, against the opposition and signed the bill for Medicare.

The next step would have been a Democratic leadership, truly representing ordinary Americans. Sitting down to sign a bill opening up Medicare to the entire country.

But what we increasingly see is a government by the rich, for the rich, and about the rich. Unbelievable to see a "little old lady" -- carrying a tea bag sign, "Pay your bills," considering what a trip to the emergency room costs. And she's the embodiment of "ordinary America"?

More like Dick Army's propaganda campaign. Carried forth, even by these progressive newspapers by writing articles about the tea bag right as if they were a real force among "ordinary" Americans. Anyone with a simple understanding of a basic calculator knows they are not.

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The real class war will erupt when the poor and working class realize they've been used, duped, and robbed by the GOP/tea machine.
Then the fun begins.
The rich will be outnumbered 49 to 1.
A simple tip: read history. A clear example is the French Revolution. It wasn't that long ago.
So go ahead, GOP, target and harm the poor, the workers, the elderly, and the sick and infirm.
And see what happens.

The real class war will never erupt as long as the proletariat is mollified by Saturday night football and the other sports so prevalent in our society. Escapism is the rule of the day for many people. They would all have to be on the street, without food or health care and dieing before a revolution would take place and the ruling class in America will keep them just above that. Also, the working people seem to want to vote the republicans in due to issues that have nothing to do with their welfare, like gay marriage, abortion. And as long as they do this, the workers will be kept down and in the gutter.

Are FOREIGN sources former American companies that have moved off shore, or are they foreign companies with large operations here like Toyota, Honda, and InBev? I would think that all of them are looking a stable regulatory environment, which the Obama team certainly has not provided, therefore they have every right to do all that they can to improve business conditions.

As far as FST CATS go I think that the laast 18 months have proven that they OWN both the Rep's and the Dem's. The Tea Party group MAY be the only way out.

"The appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy."

The conservative majority of the Supreme Court
have soiled themselves and the court with this decision.

The real class war is getting ready to erupt at any time. Many of the people that have been duped for years are beginning to wake up. This is because the actions of the GOP are openly showing there cards. It is beginning to be very obvious what there desires are. This is why the polarization is taking place so quickly. There are more and more people everyday that are seeing for themselves what assholes they have been backing all this time. These are the ones that are the most riled up. I do not blame them, when they discover that they have been used for so very long. If we can save the situation before this next election so that the democrat's hold their own this will prolong the inevitable class explosion. If on the other hand they do not hold their own and the democrat's loose control. Then look for the war of 2011.

Americans talk a good fight but when was the last time you've seen one; not in my lifetime & I'm 67. The fact that the rich no longer need unions to divert the masses from revolt tells it all (no commie alternative). I look at the French, at the Greeks in the streets & I compare them to the American reality show/sports watchers in the USA. The rich & their media keep telling people that Americans can not afford entitlements like SS & Medicare & no one asks, "why not we are a rich country, are we not?" Should the old people have no Medicare? Should older Americans have no minimal pensions. Are we reduced to dog eat dog, will the rich never be satisfied. Billionaires pay 15% tax on their cap gains & every low paid worker pays about the same on his/her FICA (yes Virginia the employer portion is your wages). I lived in the USA for 6 years & I never figgered it out; on an individual basis you are generous to a fault but just ask you for a dollar in tax so a poor kid can get a decent schooling & look out. Why do you have no desire for a decent more egalitarian society? All Europe is full of people rich beyond your wildest dreams & yet workers still get a decent deal; why can the USA not do this. We are all in debt, we hear. What we don't hear is "who are we in debt to?", "where did they get the money?", what exactly is money anyway, where does it come from & who controls it. It's almost like asking the same questions about god & in fact it is the same. Both are faith based & have no intrinsic value & both have been and are used to control the masses. I think the lack of religion & the unionization rate go a long way towards explaining why the European workers have it so much better. Good luck, American hard working people, you are gonna need it because none of your elites gives a damn about you!

The Working Class in America is rudderless and Leaderless!

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A large part of the polarization that permits the right wing to exploit, for their own ends, the rage of the culturally conservative is that this demographic, which should be more aligned with the left on class issues, is that they are finding spiteful joy in angering the left so much.

The more the left wing berates and chastises them for their apparent stupidity in backing candidates like Palin and regressives like Beck, the more they delight. They resent feeling so exploited by what they see as the liberal and intellectual elite, no matter how fantastical that seems to us. Their non-critical outlooks are easy pickings for the power elite adept at the science of perception management.

The right has the guns and the left has the logic. How will that end up?

The Democrats are PART OF the class war:

1. They saddled us with NAFTA, and CONTINUE to support it.

2. They saddled us with the WTO, which is NAFTA on a global scale.

3. They voted to approve the fascists on the Supreme Court that gave us the Citizens United decision. (Look at Scalia's Wikipedia page, and you'll see this fascist was approved by ALL (100%) of the Democrats (& Republicans) in the Senate.)

4. Most importantly: The Democrats didn't immediately begin impeachment proceedings against the fascist Supreme Court "justices" (I use that term loosely) who committed this vicious assault on our democracy with the Citizens United decision.

Folks, it's a rigged game. If you vote Democratic, you STILL get a corrupt party in power whose first priority is protecting and increasing corporate profits.

It won't change while you keep voting for the corporate parties.

The solution: Vote Green Party! It sends a strong message to the corporate politicians that their fascist, pro-business agenda will lose them votes.

It still sends a strong message even if the Green candidate doesn't win. 1% - 2% of the vote can flip a close election. Losing votes to the Green Party is something the Democrats can't ignore, like they ignore your emails and letters. It's the only thing they understand.

VOTE GREEN!

Who gave them the right to buy an election?

Dionne answers that: The Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United and Republicans who have now decided they are against donor information disclosure.

George Soros, is that you?

The rich, as Buffett said, are winning.

How do you explain that, Mr. Bones?

In no other country on earth would the common people tolerate the amount of abuse being showered on the American worker with increasing vehemence every day.

Maybe there's just no turn left in the worm.

EJD, Jr.: You are so involved in your theories that you don't have one foot on the floor (you're not grounded).
the Oligarchy owns and directs the whole system - Dems and Reps alike. There is no truth of any kind in D.C. Bush/Cheney or Obama - they are all deceitful, self-indulgent, POLITICIANS who perpetrate the corrupt system. As long as there is the Federal Income Tax System with the thousands of Tax lobbyists paying off congress and bureaucrats -- nothing with change for the better. Get real, Get educated, Get back to commonsense and Constitutional law -- not illegal Bill of Right changes that have destroyed Free Enterprise (Free Enterprise is NOT Capitalist Imperialism practiced by both Dems and Reps). FairTax.org study it or silence thy mouth.