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None of those things are classes in the sense of the times the notion of class warfare was first pitched, and many of them cross classes. There's plenty of poo
by zdragnar 4mo ago
None of those things are classes in the sense of the times the notion of class warfare was first pitched, and many of them cross classes.
There's plenty of poor/impoverished boomers, blues, reds, city and country folk
- nswango 4mo agoI think that's exactly the grandparent's point. Those conflicts are all the pretexts - they believe that it's actually class war and the other labels are all used to avoid calling it by its name.
- zdragnar 4mo agoIt isn't class warfare if the two (or more) sides aren't divided by class. What OP meant was the income and wealth gaps are they only things they care about, not the only things that are real.
- TheOtherHobbes 4mo agoNo, it's the empirical fact that the US is a plutocratic oligarchy. The oligarchy runs the economy, the government, and the media for its own benefit, and is violently opposed to anything that challenges this. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
- breppp 4mo agoHow do you "empirically" prove something of that sort? I for one look at Trump or the previous Tea Party change in the Republican party as anything close to having a static group of elites controlling the country
- bluefirebrand 4mo agoOf course it's a static group of elites. They might not all agree with each other but they definitely all used to hang out on Epstein's island together It's all the same group, despite the politicking in the public sphere
- microgpt 4mo agoTaxonomy is never perfect. What's the most obvious one that seems watertight? I'll tell you the holes in it.