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Sunday 26 August 2012

But we don’t like to talk about money or class in America. If you point out inequities in the system (as I just have), state the obvious fact that the wealthy control money, power, and politics, or even suggest that we have classes in America, you may be accused of something called “class warfare.” The term itself points out that power and resources are unequally allocated across the classes— that the very poor have little, the very wealthy have a lot, and are getting more. When it is used as a negative description, though, it typically means this: Please don’t point out that the very poor have little, and the very wealthy have a lot. Given that the very wealthy already occupy a position of power and privilege, their fortunes are hardly going to be jeopardized by someone speaking the truth. So why is it that they don’t even wish for the fact of their wealth to be noted? Greg Garrett

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