I was going to reply in the breitbart thread but as I thought about it more I felt this actually warranted a discussion on its own.
I hear there's a third, more damning tape out there -apparently it's just Obama standing in a parking lot! CLASS FUCKING WARFARE - I knew it!!
I really have trouble understanding why class warfare is such a bad thing. The republicans like to sprout it like it is the evil of the end times, but I can think of a number of class based societies and not a single one of them were very good. They almost all had the higher classes oppress the lower classes, and there was essentially no way for someone of lower class could increase their class standing. In effect class societies are always based strongly on inequality and those of the higher class strongly attempt to maintain the status-quot.
From what I can see America is essentially made up of three classes you have the rich, the working class and the poor. I would like to point out that working class in this case is supposed to mean middle class, but the distance between the middle class and the rich is so huge I felt working class was a better name. I am not trying to imply the poor don't work either with these names.
From the perspective of the Occupy movement there are two classes, the rich, and everyone else. At least that is the perception I receive from their protests. They have merged the classes of the working class with the poor, and given how close they are socially I don't really blame them. Their goal seems to be to break down the class barrier between the rich and the rest so that the rich no longer have a special set of rules just for themselves. For the most part I think this is a good goal.
From the perspective of the republicans, from what I can see, they have divided the classes into two you have the poor, and the working class. They have gone and merged the rich and working classes together. They then threaten that class warfare will result in the working class becoming exactly like the poor, or alternatively, that the poor will be able to receive the same life as the working class at the expense of the working class.
Both, position's are essentially correct, from what I can see. The foundation of class warfare is to break the boundaries between classes and allow true equality. All are capable of moving up or down based on their own merit. Clearly now there are very definitive classes. The rich can do anything they desire with no consequence. The working class can never enter the realms of the rich, because the rich make sure they don't have any competition form their peasants. The poor, cant even enter the class of the working class because they are often so destitute that barely surviving takes all their energy and they don't receive the help needed to move up, education often being the most deciding factor.
Personally that the republicans are actively admitting the current extreme class state of the American social system is shocking in itself. Then again, they really haven't even been trying to hide their agendas anymore. I am just failing to see how class warfare and the destruction of the class boundaries is a bad thing. As I said earlier all other class based societies sucked. The ones not currently around (which suck as well) generally ended rather unpleasantly, especially for those at the top. As a result I can understand the desire for the rich at the top of this pyramid to prevent any change. However, I don't understand how they can honestly argue their point to break down even the barrier between the poor and the working class.
The question I guess is, why is class warfare such a dirty word?
Edit for adding in that last question line.