The Left needs to stop running from accusations...

[chicagojoe]

...of class warfare. We are bogged down in a class war, and we must be PROUD to be class warriors.

[nashville_brook]

1. ok

[ClassWarrior]

2. (see handle above and quote below)

NGU.

[chicagojoe]

3. Cool. What's NGU?

[ClassWarrior]

4. Never Give Up...

...my personal motto since Nov. 3.

NGU.

[magellan]

5. Indeed

There will only two classes in America soon: the super-wealthy and the dirt poor. If you aren't well on your way to being super-wealthy right now, prepare yourself because your political party won't save you.

[OneBlueSky]

6. I always point out that THEY started this class war . . .

and if we don't engage them in a meaningful way, they're going to win . . . if they haven't already . . .

warfare generally means that there is a winner and a loser . . . and to the winner go the spoils . . . either they (the elite, the oligarchy, the corporatocracy) are going to win (or already have), or we (the people) are going to win . . . right now, they have all the control and all the resources . . .

except one . . .

there are a hell of a lot more of us than there are of them . . .

of course, that's an asset only if there's a democracy . . . and right now there doesn't seem to be much of one . . .

[housewolf]

7. I agree with you

For the most part, we (the left) has tended to poo-poo this issue, just sort of rolling our eyes with their every attack, not realizing there was any reality to it (sort of like the US did with the al queda attacks over the years). We've just sort of said to ourselves "oh, it's just those rw fundies, those crazies again..." and gone on about our merry ways, blind to their idea, goals and power accumulation.

They have attacked us time and time again - most recently with the "stealing Christmas" flack - and we just sit and wonder what the heck they're doing, how do they come up with this stuff? We need to realize that this type of thing is a direct, planned, strategized tactic in what they call the culture war and we need to figure out how to fight in this war.

It's time we get ourselves together, take stock of them as an advesary engage with them on this basis. I agree that there are more of us and that is to our advantage but we can't win if we don't fight. It's kind of like the lottery - you can't win if you don't play.

Framing the language, as has been discussed here and within the party over the past couple of months, is one tactic to use, once we all learn how to use it. What are some other tactics we can use?