The bastard Republicans have been at it for decades now with the projection of their "class warfare" accusations. For years, the very notion that one might mention the possibility that America does, indeed, have a class system (not to mention, a political system and a corporate order run by the upper class) would bring about a quick reply by the GOP that those who mention this are engaged in "class warfare" as well as the "politics of envy."
Lately, though, this meme has been getting old and tiresome, as the indisputable truth about class and the GOP sink in on an ever wider basis. Which of course, means that class warriors for the elite, like Paul "let's kill Medicare" Ryan, are getting to be very frightened. Hence, the repetition of this phrase, used by them as a blunt instrument, with the intent of battering the public's ability to think clearly and critically.
And, as Paul Krugman points out about Republicans, "without exception, their policy proposals call for sacrifice on the part of most people, but lavish tax cuts on high incomes — and when you point this out, they yell `class warfare'." (thanks to sunbro for this quote).
Hence, the latest blather from Paul Ryan.
President Obama’s latest deficit-reduction proposal, an increased tax rate on millionaires that he dubbed the “Buffett rule,” looks dead on arrival with the Republican caucus. On Fox News Sunday, top House GOP member Paul Ryan called the new plan “class warfare,” and said the president is manipulating Americans’ “fear, envy, and anxiety.”
Ryan is also quoted as saying
"Class warfare ... may make for really good politics, but it makes for rotten economics,"
I wonder if this elitist pig was sipping from a $500 dollar bottle of wine paid for by a lobbyist contributor as he formulated this line?
Anyway, can it get any clearer that the GOP loves and lives for actual class warfare, as they practice it every day. It only gets called "class warfare" and gets a finger wagging from them when reality is pointed out, that the Teapublican Party represents the interests of the wealthy and the corporate order and no one else. Everyone else in the USA is to be sold out, if it means more money and profit for the GOP's true benefactors, who own Paul Ryan the way that I might own a little goldfish swimming around in a small bowl of water for my own entertainment.
Since Ryan the chickenshit refuses to meet with his constituents, perhaps he needs to check the polls to see just how hated he and his fellow Republicans in Congress have become. People are wising up as to whom Paul Ryan is there to represent; it sure ain't the people.