Can't Win A Class War Unless We Fight One - DailyKos

[WillyT]

Can't win a class war unless we fight one
by Chris Bowers for Daily Kos
SUN JUL 17, 2011 AT 01:00 PM PDT

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As you read this, rich and powerful people in Washington, DC are trying to determine not whether they should cut programs designed to help low and middle-income Americans, but by how much they should cut those programs. The rich and powerful people in DC are making these cuts in order to pay for tax breaks they recently gave to rich people and large corporations. Additionally, the cuts are being made at the behest of the lobby organizations and media operations owned by rich people and large corporations.

If that isn't a class war, I don't know what is. For the past 40 years, the outcomes of the political battles in this war have almost always approximated the forthcoming debt ceiling deal. Stuff for low and middle-income people gets cut. Stuff for big corporations and the wealthy gets protected.



In this depressing environment, it feels good to see ads in the Wisconsin recall elections that are fighting the class war in the other direction, on behalf of low and middle-income Americans and against the wealthy. For example, here is a recent ad that We Are Wisconsin is running against Republican Luther Olsen:

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Several organizations have been running ads like these against Republicans in Wisconsin, such as the ad of Wisconsin protesters by Democracy for America and the PCCC that got big play back in the spring. Watching ads with this simple message—elected officials taking money from the middle class and giving it to rich people and big corporations—makes it easy to understand why Republicans get huffy whenever they think Democrats are engaging in class warfare. When you fight the class war from the other direction, it can be very effective.

Polling shows it working, too:

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More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/17/995403/-Cant-win-a-class-war-unless-we-fight-one?via=blog_1

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[musette_sf]

1. K to the R

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[WillyT]

2. Kick !!!

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[tavalon]

3. Kicked

[socialist_n_TN]

4. Kick. It's only a class war if we fight back

Until it's a class massacre. And it's been a class massacre for at least 30 years now. It's about time people are waking up to the fact.

[WillyT]

5. Bingo !!! - Thank You For That !!!

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