Reply #3: Class warfare is forbidden in the Republican playbook UNLESS it benefits the upper class [View All]

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The republicans denounce class warfare whenever they detect it happening in the Democrats or any group other than the Republicans, and claim that it's "not allowed" and that America is a "classless society" where class warfare has no place. Yet at the same time, nearly everything the Republicans do is class warfare, for their upper class - that segment of society which makes its living by "ownership" or exertion of power, rather than by actually making something or doing something that is beneficial to other people. Nearly everything the Reagan-Bush-Cheney brigade has done is class warfare for that particular class. But if anyone else ever tries to fight for the middle class or even the poor, the republicans denounce that as "class warfare" and imply that it's somehow "out of bounds" or against the rules.