No one could have predicted that giving the president of the American Enterprise Institute a billion words in the Washington Post would result in both a column on why rich people deserve to keep all their money and a colossal waste of everyone’s time. When does the class war begin, again?
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I believe it began on Jan. 20, 1981. It’s been like the beginning of WWI for the past 30 years. Liberals have been going into battle mounting cavalry charges against mechanized weapons. The results weren’t pretty then and they haven’t been up to now.
I was going to post essentially the same comment. Well, one could argue that the class war started in 1975 with the founding of the Heritage Foundation, which led to Reagan’s near nomination in 1976 and election in 1980. However, 1/20/81 was D-Day in the class war.
The problem is that for the past 30 years the liberals have been represented by a party of Neville Chamberlains. And now we have Neville Obama.
The Democrats. History’s greatest placebo party. Since 1981 the major accomplishment of the Democrats has been to prevent a real labor/liberal/opposition party from being established in America.
The Democrats started taking money from the same rich folks as the Republicans.
I only read the last three paragraghs of that screed. It’s incoherent. If the last 3 paragraphs stink, I bet the rest isn’t any better. Can’t Brooks find a better LTE writer?
The class war is over. We lost even though we didn’t know we were fighting.
The class war goes back to the beginning of time. We’re just living through the most recent iteration.
Isn’t the truth in that ancient book that the US rulling classes jusg gush and gush over, endlessly refer to to justify themselves (and I’m not only thinking of repugnants and fundies): those who have only get more. That’s in the Jewish bible, I’ve been told. Yesterday in Amsterdam train station I saw a poster for the May 21st Last Judgment (aka End of the World) paid for by a Christian radio station. Horror of horrors, the rot is everywhere (nothing new). I think I’ll take a picture of it as a May 22nd joke.