• Rakonat@lemmy.world
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    Thing about a class war is it only works as long as you can subdivide the lower classes and make them hate each other.

    Even the GOP base has figured out that the boot on their neck belongs to the rich, probably thanks to Elon’s haphazard culling of govt employees, specifically veterans, while preserving funds that benefit the rich.

    Say what you will about conservative voters, but when something is obviously harming them specifically they will go after it, and Trump’s administration has finally blundered enough to wake at least some of them up.

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      class war […] only works as long as you can subdivide the lower classes and make them hate each other.

      That’s not how class war works, that’s how they try to prevent class war, ie war between classes.

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      It’s the same story with the status-quo-protectors vs innovation-seekers no?

      First party just wants to stay put so everyone who thinks like them are already in the same camp. (zero vector)

      Others side agrees that vector of “politicial compass” must be non-zero but they don’t agree on the direction so the net effect is 0, status quo.