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It’s Not Class Warfare, It’s Genocide
President Trump has secured the rich with tax breaks and secured the working class with fear. What about those in the middle?
Conflict is defined as “the tension or antagonism which exists in society due to competing socioeconomic interests and desires between people of different classes.”
Genocide is defined as “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.”
With all due respect to victims of historical genocide, how is it possible to think about what is currently happening to the middle-class as anything other than the systematic destruction of a cultural group?
It’s a war among the classes that even billionaire investor Warren Buffett believes exists. It’s what he had in mind, in 2006, when he said, “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war. . .”
Since 2016, it’s not just the rich class heeding that clarion call. Many working-class folks have joined the war. Which is confounding because aside from the fear-mongering, anything the current administration has put into play benefits the wealthy. Well, to be fair, the Trump tax overhaul of 2017 did provide most families will a slight tax cut in 2017.
