Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Andrew Yang Smeared by POLITICO In Transparent Hit Piece." video.

You're almost right, it is a class war, but there's actually 3 major conflicts going on in American politics. There's the one in the Dems, the one in the GOP and the one between the billionaire elites who control both parties. The conflict between billionaires is what I call Carbon Vs. Silicon. Look at the billionaires on the Republican side and a lot of them have made their money from extracting, refining, processing, and selling carbon based products (coal, oil, plastics,....etc). On the other side supporting the Dems are a pack of technocrats Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg types who all rely on computers and technologies based around silicon. I know its not strictly true but fundamentally if you're a billionaire into Carbon your a Republican and if your billionaire who relies on Silicon your a Dem. As for the conflict inside the Dems its progressives versus stagnators. I call them stagnators because all they want is stagnation. They want nothing to change unless it benefits them. Sure Bezos and others are disruptors but look at how they now treat anybody else and any competition. They love to disrupt but wont let anybody else disrupt. Progressives are progressive because they want society to move forwards. The most fundamental aspect of progressives is that they want change that benefits everyone not just the few. There's even a similar conflict in the GOP where you have the Trumpists who want to break the power of the old oil & coal families like the Bush and Koch families. Trump himself might not give a crap about them, but he tapped right into a massive amount of anger and frustration from people who had been left behind. Look at how much the top 1% have made in the past 30+ years and what did the base of the GOP get. Most of them have seen no real wage growth the entire working lives and more often than not watched there jobs get moved to Texas or Mexico or China. The second American civil war might not have been openly declared but it has been going for about 5 years.
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@Jay...777 Well I think your missing the point. In both American parties it is the 99% against the 1%. Seriously how do you think Trump stormed through to win the nomination? Did you even pay attention to what happened there? In that crowd of 16 there were some real sons of the GOP. Most notably Jeb "the chosen one" Bush who was actually the one son of the Bush family they thought would be president. Dub-ya's run was actually a trail run to see how the son of a president might go. Then a guy named Carl Rove came along with a plan. Then there was Texas oil boy Ted Cruz and his Goldman Sachs wife - how more top 1% can you get. Trump simply realised that they treated the majority of the GOP base with contempt and gave them a way to focus there frustration first with the GOP elite and then against a full blown genuine elitist in Hilary. Over on the Dem side its a bit less extreme but there's still the lower chunk versus the billionaire elitists. To not see there's a conflict in each party as well as between the 2 sides of the top 1% is to ignore the reality of the last decade. I suggest you mull on that.
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