Class Warfare, My Ass

In 1793, the French people executed King Louis XVI, by guillotine.  Over the next couple of years, they executed between 16 and 40,000 people, mostly for the crime of being greedy rich fuckers, having nice houses and servants and stuff like that when most people were struggling

What I can't figure out is why that dead guy in the foreground isn't wearing any pants

to survive.

16 to 40,000, that’s how bad they lost count.  They were just loppin’ off heads like crazy.  Now, that’s class warfare.  When Barack Obama says he’s going to let the taxes on the rich go back up to the same level they were when Bill Clinton was president, when he proposes a rule that says that rich people should have to pay at least the same tax rate that middle class people say (the Buffett rule, named after the actual rich person who proposed it), when he says he’ll veto any proposal that says we’ll reduce medicare or social security without at least making the rich pay something, some token amount, that’s not class warfare.  It doesn’t matter what Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan and John Boehner (America’s saddest cross between a bassett  hound and an Oompah-Loompah), say.

It’s just simple math.  This class warfare meme is an absurd accusation, it belongs right up there with secret muslim, born in Kenya, FEMA death camps  and oh so many others.

I object to it in this particular case because I hate teabaggers, neocons and whatever else they are calling right wingers these days, but I also object, in general, to the use of the word “war” for things that are not actually wars.  It trivializes war and makes it sound so acceptable.  When they talk about “The War on Drugs,” or Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” what they really meant was “a very serious effort.”  Unfortunately, some people took the “war on drugs” far too literally, guns got involved and now northern Mexico has, indeed, come to resemble a war zone.  Words have consequences.

So, Mr. Boehner (pronounced boner – at least I pronounce it boner), unless you actually want us to bring out the guillotines I’d suggest that you and your buddies STFU with the class warfare talk.