  Real Class War Is Working to Keep Those Below You Down
Tuesday, 20 September 2011 08:05 By Joshua Holland, AlterNet |
Op-Ed   • Print   • Email  That conservatives are greeting the
deficit reduction package Barack Obama presented on Monday – one
that includes a new minimum tax on millionaires – with howls of
'class warfare' is as predictable as the sun rising in the east.
It's a poll-tested talking point, after all.  But it obscures a
far more pernicious form of “class warfare” being waged from
above – a war of attrition against the upward economic mobility
of ordinary working people. We live in a country where most
people believe their opportunities are limited only by their
innate talents and appetite for hard work, but over the last
four decades, while decrying a wholly imaginary class war from
below, conservative policies have undermined many of the ladders
by which working people once achieved a middle-class lifestyle.
Taking pot-shots at another class isn't war, nor is imposing a
modest tax increase