Reply #16: Actually, even the Class War is a symptom.

[GliderGuider]

The root problem is that there are too many people, consuming too much, and facing the diminishing returns of a depleted global resource base while being unwilling to relinquish their belief in perpetual growth.

That is the piece of cord that has been bent into the Gordian Knot we are facing. Our political and economic systems are simply responses to that situation. The Class War you perceive is but one manifestation of a species-wide dysfunctional response analogous to the General Adaptation Syndrome originally described by Dr. Hans Selye.