, My class is winning. No one (at least that I know of) is envouis of the rich. In fact, I am one and I am not envouis of me or anyone else. Class warfare, when used by some rich people, is a euphemism for I don’t want to pay any more taxes. It is a canard created by Lobbyists, like Grover Norquist, to protect even wealthier industrialists and coupon clippers who only create jobs as a last resort and never in this country if it can be avoided. Those who rightly warn that growing wealth and income disparity is bad for democracy and the future health of the economy are rightly worried that our economic engines will eventually take to the streets with pitchforks and torches or storm the Bastile. Even the father of conservatism, Edmund Burke, himself, observed this and founded a movement as a result. Today, he is turning in his grave. Those, like Mitt Romney, who don’t seem at all self aware, can hardly call themselves conservative. Aristocratic, oligarchic, or plutocratic maybe, but not conservative. And Marie Antoinette was never considered to be the economic engine of 19th century France.