Democrats Continue Class Warfare Rhetoric

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"As we head into the 2014 midterm elections, one thing is certain: Class warfare will be the campaign stage again — it is the only way this president knows how to win, by dividing and conquering — with the tea party, Main Street and businesses large and small cast as the villains.

Democrats and the media have done an effective job of demonizing the “tea party” brand and detaching its followers from their original aspirations.

So have some Republicans, notably moneymaking strategists who co-opted the movement by running untested, unvetted candidates with no business running for anything, and hard-line egocentric elected officials who care more about their own political gain or cable-news stardom and less about their grandstanding impact on people and the party.

Income inequity will be 2014's attack line for Obama and Democrats, this election cycle's class-warfare rhetoric. The first example is their pledge to rebuild the middle class with a minimum-wage increase.

According to Keystone College political science professor Jeff Brauer, the major difficulty of relying on such a strategy is one word: demographics. “While raising the minimum wage is popular with several segments of the population, many of these segments simply do not come out to vote in midterm elections — youth, minorities, and low-income populations,” he said.

Brauer argues that Democrats have a host of unpopular things to defend, such as health care, government intrusion into personal privacy, taxes, overregulation and the federal debt.

Republicans always get pegged for their supposed fidelity to the rich and to Wall Street. But the irony is that income inequality between Wall Street and Main Street has flourished under Obama and the Democrats.

The true political story today is the disconnect between the interests of working-class Americans and the Democrats' devotion to the interests of certain extremely wealthy segments of society.

It will be a tough sell to harp about income inequality when the rich got richer and the poor got poorer under this administration.



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Minimum wage hikes will be a big talking point. Think it will work?

Its crazy Rhetoric...Nevermind the fact that 1% has all the money, and your life sucks Blazr Bob- You spend it hunting up lies from corporate sponsered, ultra right wing lunatic fringe web sites. Then posting them for the same 5 ultra right wing, lunatic fringe guys here...

Thats quite a contribution to society youre making there double B..

Super Malta wrote: Its crazy Rhetoric...Nevermind the fact that 1% has all the money, and your life sucks Blazr Bob-

Please remember these admonishments in the Holy Scriptures

Exodus 20:17 ESV

“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

James 4:3 ESV

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions

Our country would be better off if the "1%" would give 10% of their profits to organizations that help the needy instead of suggesting that they give more money to an inefficient government.

I want to re distribute it to the other 99% in the form of higher wages and benifits...

You know, like in the 1950's?

Super Malta wrote: I want to re distribute it to the other 99% in the form of higher wages and benifits...

You know, like in the 1950's?

By what method would you acquire this wealth from the "1%" to make that distribution?

Reverend Revelant wrote:

Super Malta wrote: I want to re distribute it to the other 99% in the form of higher wages and benifits...

You know, like in the 1950's?

By what method would you acquire this wealth from the "1%" to make that distribution?

It real easy to restore some semblance of economic fairness

Just empower people... with labor unions, raise the minimum wage and tax everything over 10 million earned at 99%...Kinda like what FDR did in 1930..and get corporate money out of politics

Or jusy follow Germany's economic model- Most unionized country in the world, everyones gets paid, everyone has 6 weeks off a year, everyone has free healthcare and education and their economy is one the best in the world.

We don't have to theorize..We have history and real life examples to draw on here..

PS-I really don't want to discuss important things with a guy that believes in fairy tales..

Super Malta wrote: PS-I really don't want to discuss important things with a guy that believes in fairy tales..

Perusing many of your past posts makes me wonder who is the fairy tale teller? If what you say is truly your intent, then it's up to you not to respond to me.

Bet you can't?

Reverend Revelant wrote:

Super Malta wrote: PS-I really don't want to discuss important things with a guy that believes in fairy tales..

Perusing many of your past posts makes me wonder who is the fairy tale teller? If what you say is truly your intent, then it's up to you not to respond to me.

Bet you can't?

...The tellers are smart, the believers are stupid

Reverend Revelant wrote: Bet you can't?

how much do you want to bet?