Americans Love Class War!

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http://www.alternet.org/news/155758/americans_love_class_war%21/

Americans still hate the rich, according to yet another poll. And not just godless secular liberals! Pew’s major Trends in American Values poll shows class resentments bridging the partisan divide: “Majorities in all educational and income groups agree that ‘today it’s really true that the rich just get richer while the poor get poorer.’ In the current survey, 76% of the public agrees with this statement, about the same as the 74% that agreed in 1987.”

Even the moderate pundit crowd’s beloved independents agree: Our ruling classes are worthless parasites. A mere 22 percent of “swing voters” “admire the rich.” (How many Romney supporters “admire the rich,” you ask? Thirty-eight percent. No one likes rich people.)

As Elspeth Reeve puts it, succinctly and correctly, “swing voters are not libertarians.” They’re also not “socially liberal and fiscally conservative,” like the vast majority of our well-off media elites tend to consider themselves.

Basically, vast swaths of Americans hate the rich, and also hate immigrants. Right now there are two pro-rich people political parties and one anti-immigrant political party. You can probably imagine which one is winning over these voters. It’s almost as if the conservative party gradually scared the ostensibly liberal party away from economic populism then reaped the electoral benefits of being the only populist party!

[Skittles]

1. I don't believe that people hate the rich

we don't hate our celebrities that much

we simply DETEST people who get rich off the backs of others

[Art_from_Ark]

2. If they are OBVIOUSLY getting rich off the backs of others,

they MIGHT be detested...

But then again, look at Mittens-- he loves to fire people, he made scads of money resurrecting the "Chainsaw Al" routine which put thousands out of work while he got richer, and yet he is a serious contender for the presidency.

Personally, I think the Joe Sixpack types detest poor people more than they detest rich people.

[Skittles]

3. Joe Sixpack detests whoever Fox News and Rush tell them to detest

they are SHEEP

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Joe Sixpack types are on the edge of being poor and just do not get that

the one-percent are the reason.

They are dangerously close to becoming what they detest more.

[sweetloukillbot]

5. THe ones I know think they are the one percent

Or at least would be if the government would get off their backs. ADmittedly, one I know is a small business owner who makes a very good living running a trucking business. The other however is a terminally unemployed fantasy author who has a chip on his shoulder because literary agents can't recognize his genius.