Reply #73: really?

[Two Americas]

I can't imagine it being more obvious than it is now.

Granted, the boot heel of the tyrant rests fairly lightly on a few - the 10% of the population who are doing fairly well but are not wealthy and have to work to survive. That is the only segment of the population that has any confusion about this. The working class people in the professions who imagine themselves in the "middle" - halfway between the poor and the super wealthy, and who in exchange for status and income and security speak for the super wealthy and in opposition to the bottom 90%. Malcolm X most eloquently spoke about this when he talked about the "house Negroes" - those who identified with and defended and promoted the interests of the rulers and were paid off with a slightly better life and with status.