Class Struggle – Jim Webb’s Wall Street Journal Editorial

[Jim Webb](http://www.webbforsenate.com/home.php) has an editorial in the Wall Street Journal today.

A snippett:

The most important–and unfortunately the least debated–issue in politics today is our society’s steady drift toward a class-based system, the likes of which we have not seen since the 19th century. America’s top tier has grown infinitely richer and more removed over the past 25 years. It is not unfair to say that they are literally living in a different country. Few among them send their children to public schools; fewer still send their loved ones to fight our wars.

The politics of the Karl Rove era were designed to distract and divide the very people who would ordinarily be rebelling against the deterioration of their way of life. Working Americans have been repeatedly seduced at the polls by emotional issues such as the predictable mantra of “God, guns, gays, abortion and the flag” while their way of life shifted ineluctably beneath their feet.

[Read](http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009246 “Read the Story”) (Wall Street Journal)

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