Eugene Robinson had this to say about who's been conducting class warfare all these years, and the Congressional Budget Office study that backs it up (see chart in our post on October 26):
"If Americans were to realize they've been the victims of Republican-style redistribution -- stealing from the poor to give to the rich -- the whole political atmosphere might change. I believe that's one reason why the Occupy Wall Street protests have struck such a nerve. The far right and its media mouthpieces have worked themselves into a frenzy trying to disregard, dismiss or discredit the demonstrations. Thus far, fortunately, all this effort has been to no avail."
For all its flaws and temporizing, there's still a party that's ultimately on the side of fairness and the "have-nots," and one that's ultimately on the side of "redistribution" and the "haves." Let that be the way the 2012 election is framed, despite a "mainstream" media that's forgotten that the mission of journalism is to seek and report the facts.
