Quote Originally Posted by slack_pie View Post
Yeah, there seems to be a major shift in recent years. The Democrats are now the party of the wealthy
I'll give you things have shifted but I don't believe that. We have to be clear what the establishment is, and always has been - it's the economic elite, the corporation owners, and it's extension to politics and media, which it controls by buying. The people at the top of business, politics, media generally share the same background and culture.

This is how I read the pretty poor options available to the US electorate, in really crude terms

Harris - 'I will not threaten your wealth and power dear billionaires, but can't we please keep things sweet by not distributing away from the middle class and poor anymore than we've done already'

Trump - 'Let's go for it, Truss style, and see how far we can cut tax and redistribute wealth even further in favour of the billionnaires. Undermine labour as much as possible and create Latin American style or pre-New Deal levels of inequality'

They're both the party of the wealthy - would the establishment allow either of the two main options to actually threaten their position? Of course not. But the Republican as ever are the ones to be be aggressively engaging in class war to bring about a further major shift in favour of the ruling class.