Reply #77: But class warfare has been being waged [View All]

[donkeyotay]

as your snippet shows so well. The free market capitalism that has been being practiced is about a CEO class using all their privilege to exploit workers, consumers and shareholders. The capital accumulates in fewer hands, hands which then finance elections, write legislation and neutralize regulators, and basically print their own money.

According to the capitalist theory, they are supposed to be investing in the means to produce more wealth, i.e., factories - here. Capitalism's downturns were supposed to rejuvenate the system for the next upswing of prosperity. Instead, the current system papers over the excesses of the CEO class, and they go on to waste more money, blow more bubbles and then claim the working people are fomenting class warfare if they mention any of it. It's not class warfare when they do it, just like the refrain that only democrats are partisan. Republicans are always above politics and so pure in their republicanism that they never practice class warfare.