Class warfare

You may have seen the T-shirt that says “It’s only class warfare when we fight back.”  Well, we are fighting back.  A survey by the Pew Research Center, a reputable polling organization, found that conflict between the rich and poor now is now perceived as more important than conflicts between blacks and whites or between immigrants and the native born.

According to a report on the poll results in today’s New York Times about 2/3rds of Americans now believe that there are “strong conflicts” between the rich and the poor.  This is up from 47% in 2009. 

The scales are falling from our eyes.  I think we have two groups to thank for this growing class consciousness.  One, of course, is the Occupy movement.  The other is the Republicans in Congress.  Their efforts to protect the top 1% are too evident to ignore.