Short diary here: this was a comment that someone suggested should be more widely disseminated. So here goes:
We are in full-fledged class war. But only one side-- the top 1%-- is actually organized and fighting the class war.
The other side-- the 99% of us-- are too busy fighting each other. Right vs. left, anti-war vs. not-so-anti-war, fundamentalists vs. gays and women, white vs. black and Latino, "Red State" vs. "Blue State", culture war crap, etc.
It has ever been thus. Marx called it "false consciousness". The elite walks away with the money and power, and the "proletariat" fights amongst itself over stupid shit that either doesn't matter at all, or is way besides the point of the whole battle.
Wouldn't it be great if, for only a few days, all these factions could (praise Bill Hicks) squeegee our third eyes and realize how we're being fucked every day by the top 1% elite in this country?
What would happen?