Thursday, June 27, 2013

Do the Occupiers even have a legitimate gripe?

Or, what They don't want you to know about the "class war" and who usually wins it.

As a matter of historical record, we are told to expect to see a history replete with examples of "the rich" exploiting "the middle class" and "the poor". This usually takes the form of a just-so story to explain why the rich are rich and the poor are poor. You have probably heard some version of this story at least once in your life, if not a million times by different people. It is also the very basis of the Occupy movement: the vague notion that those greedy rich people are somehow exploiting us hard-working blue collars.