For those who think Class Warfare rhetoric from politicians ‘no big deal’, Thomas Sowell has an article at National Review Online that might help with perspective.

Boiled down, he condemns the ‘intellectuals’ who constantly try to apply a grand theory to explain group differences in outcome, inevitably leading to resentment and hostility.

He speaks in ethnic and genetic terms, but it’s easy to apply this same commentary to our wildly successful Free Market economic system, now attacked by the Liberal Left.

Put simply, in such a system ‘Opportunity’ is available, but ‘Results’ are not guaranteed.

Some achieve, many do not, for a variety of reasons.

But the Left applies their concept of ‘Fairness’ to stoke fires of envy and rage against the Achievers, in order to build their version of a more acceptable societal order.

Taken in that context, one can argue that there’s a concerted effort being mounted to provoke a new-age ‘Capitalism Holocaust’…using resentment and malice against those who have achieved success…to enable the buildup of a Big Government nanny state.

Sowell’s last paragraphs clarify. Liberals (wrongly) theorize that either genetic determinism or discrimination explain differences in outcome. Their False Dichotomy is that it must be either one or the other, creating ‘racial and ethnic polarization’.

“The false dichotomy…leaves less-successful groups with the choice of believing that they are inherently inferior or else that they are victims of the unconscionable malice of others.” (emphasis added)

“When innumerable factors make equal outcomes virtually impossible, reducing those factors to genes or malice is a formula for needless and dangerous polarization, whose consequences have often been written in blood across the pages of history.”

Thus the dangers of Class Warfare rhetoric, provoking a new-age Capitalism Holocaust.

In that Perspective, loosely adapting Shakespeare now seems apropos…

‘By the Pricking of (Capitalist) thumbs, something Wicked this way comes…’