Ending Entitlements For The Entitled Class Is Defined as Class Warfare

This article reinforces the message that Elizabeth Warren is using in her Massachusetts Senate campaign. Its not class warfare when one fights back in a class war. She argues, correctly, that the entitled class has been conducting class warfare against the middle class for over 30 years. The entitled class is eager to reduce benefits, that it calls entitlements, to the unentitled middle class. Now they are upset that some politicians are bold enough to describe the war correctly and fight back. This does not make the entitled class happy. They assume that entitlement belongs to them because they earned it the easy way. They elected governments that acknowledged their divine rights and rewarded them with tax cuts, subsidies and deregulation which benefited them at the expense of the middle class. Now some have the nerve to question their privileges. That, they declare, is class warfare, and not an appropriate response to the more sophisticated way in which they engaged in class warfare, by paying a respectable price for government favor in the free market for government entitlements.

President Obama, who seems to prefer drone warfare, and has a distaste for political confrontation, has raised some questions about the continuation of government support for the entitled class. They regard this as treason, and reasonable pundits like David Brooks, are advising him not to support those who would fight back against those who been conducting a gentlemanly form of warfare for over 30 years. They tell him that this is certain way to lose the election because the public does not like class warfare when the middle class fights back. They are full of advice that might help him to lose the election, as well as campaign contributions from the entitled class. It remains to be seen whether the President will take their advice.