The goons and lawyers of Syria, Greece. New York City and elsewhere know very well which side of their bread has butter on it. It is the side of the wealthy and their lawyers. The goons do not hang out with the people on the street. The hoi polloi of the street do not have the wherewithal to pay the salaries, medical benefits and retirements of the goons. No one should be surprised by what is happening.

The wealthy and their lawyers write the laws for their own benefit. If they write what the people want, they write so many conditions and loopholes that the laws are without meaning for themselves. All but a few judges are lawyers. Their loyalty is to those who pay them and, secondly, to their lawyer peers. The churches have inputs to many laws. The majority of their parishioners do not live according to the core principles of their prophets. The religiously powerful are usually hypocrites.

Marx was right. The wealthy want feudalism and sometimes they have it, for a while. This class war in which the earth is engaged has continued for all of time. It is called revolution because it goes round and round. No one should be surprised at the fight that is taking place.

This time, the fight appears to be global.  In our modern times, it was the hippies of the nineteen-sixties who said that people should think locally and act globally. It was not long before the wealthy understood the truth of the second word, for themselves, although they are very seldom able to think and act locally. As soon as a businessman opens a second store, local begins to lose meaning. The class war has now become global, not local to or within individual countries.

This class conflict could end peacefully but history generally records that the peaceful endings are temporary. The children and grandchildren of the wealthy crawl back under the tent flaps of society to repeat the conflict. Violent endings to this conflict last longer but are horrendous to societies.

Human nature being what it is, it is not likely that either ending will close the conflict. Still, the most desirable ending to the current class war will be capitulation by the wealthy and their return to being one of the people from which they aggressively rose. As my friend, Skeeter, once said to me, the wealthy are like kites, it is constantly necessary to pull them down.

Like it or not, we are all mongrels.

witchcat