Class Warfare

I am alternately amused and angered over claims that resistance to rampant greed constitute "class warfare" and accusations about some wanting to "redistribute the wealth".
I am amused, because until now, it has been,  not a war, but a massacre.  No one has fought back regarding the inequities of class in America.
I am angered, because so many people have been hurt for so long that it has become the "norm" in American economics, and it should not be the norm anywhere.

In 1981 (yes, Reagan), de-regulation by government, privatization of mental health, privatization of other institutions and industries became the way of making money for some on the backs of others.  Hiring people only part-time to avoid paying benefits became popular.  Laying people off so that there is more profit for stock-holders and owners, and bonuses for CEO's who did the lay-offs became the norm.  Sending jobs overseas for cheap labor, cheap natural resources and unregulated pollution became the norm.  Cutting quality benefits and then benefits at all became the norm.  Attacks on organized labor that stood up to the greed of management and balanced the power for workers was the norm, even to the point of gutting the power of unions.  The cry to cut programs that helped the unemployed and the poorest in our society became louder, claiming that it was to balance the budget, while lessening the taxes paid by the wealthiest Americans toward our budget and getting ourselves into military conflicts that cost trillions of dollars and thousands of lives, and which also produced more enemies around the globe.  By these efforts, perfected in the Bush Administration(s), wealth was effectively re-distributed from the middle-class, now marginally poor class, to those already wealthy.  It was class warfare on the poor and middle class, but because the progressives were silent, the church was silent and the population, focused on getting a little more for themselves and hoping someday to be in the 1% club, were silent, it was a massacre and not a war.

Now, when anyone talks about making opportunities for economic stability more possible for more of the population, those with the power and wealth cry, "Class Warfare" and that in some "socialistic" fashion, the evil capitalism haters want to "re-distribute the wealth", as if that is not exactly what they have been doing, at will with no resistance, for over 32 years.

Yes.  It is time to make things more equitable in our country.
Yes.  It is time for us to stop being massacred economically, racially and on other battle lines, and engage in CLASS WARFARE, fighting back with liberty and justice for ALL.
Yes.  It is time that WE THE PEOPLE, re-distribute the POSSIBILITY OF WEALTH in this nation.

You see, laissez-faire capitalism is NOT Democracy.  In fact, as more politicians are bought by those in power and wealth, and as the Supreme Court is appointed by those who favor wealth and power over others, and as the rules are stacked against the poor and middle class - made by the wealthy and powerful, and as those with power and wealth consistently, persistently and systematically take away the rights of those who are poor, mostly brown and black to vote, it is clear that laissez-faire capitalism is ANTI-DEMOCRACY...  GREED is a horrible principle upon which a nation lives, LUST FOR POWER and WEALTH is a horrible guiding principle for a nation.  It leads us to... well... the immoral and unethical state in which we now live.

RE-DISTRIBUTE the POSSIBILITY of economic stability in this nation.
Engage in assertive, non-violent CLASS WARFARE.
That is true, Democratic Patriotism.

Pastor Jamie