Kotkin: The Unseen Class War That Could Decide The Presidential Election

www.newgeography.com  via Free Republic

• there’s justifiable anger at the impoverishment of much of the middle and working classes
• Blaming a disliked minority — rich business folks — has morphed into a predictable strategy for President Obama’s Democrats, stripped of incumbent success
• The “one percent” are splitting their bets. In 2008 President Obama received more Wall Street money than any candidate in history, and he still relies on Wall Street bundlers for his sustenance. [corrupt bargain! Well-connected people like...Steven Rattner, who is also known as a vigorous defender of “too big to fail"]
• Obama’s core middle-class support, and that of his party, comes from what might be best described as “the clerisy,” a 21st century version of France’s pre-revolution First Estate.[ apparatchiks!]
• The Republicans have turned increasingly to those patricians who depend on the more tangible economy....In contrast, Democratic-leaning industries, such as Internet-related companies, enjoy relatively high public support[ the intangible can slip from your fingers, the tangible is easier to hang on to--- this is a mistake-- talk about "false consciousness"!]
• “Labor” increasingly means not guys with overalls and lunch pails, but people whose paychecks are signed by taxpayers.[ labor is not your servant anymore, but your master]
• Ultimately this division — clerisy and their clients versus yeomanry — will decide the election.   The Democrats enjoy a tactical advantage....Romney’s imperative will be to rouse the yeomanry by suggesting the clerisy, both by their sheer costliness and increasingly intrusive agenda, are crippling their family’s prospects for a better life.

Being right isn't enough.  But what will be?  I think it is incumbent to point out two things, as I did above:

1. The intangible, while important, is still intangible, and therefore very hard to hang on to.  You need more than the intangible assets alone.
2. You need a moral basis for social harmony.  The left is corrupt as their "too big to fail" philosophy demonstrates.  If this becomes a master-slave relationship between the people and the government, this will lead to social discord and ultimately, social upheaval.  This is not a stable situation.  This is a false consciousness promoted by the left which will spell the doom for stability in this society.

The left likes to talk about "false-consciousness", but what is it about the left that is ever been true?  The left doesn't value truth, but denies it.  If you have respect for the truth, you cannot be on the left.  A "house divided against itself cannot stand".