Class warfare against the poor in the US is nothing new -- it was formally launched in the early 1970s and has been carried out with great efficiency over the past 40 years. For about 30 years, from 1933 to the late 1960s, the United States followed much the same path as postwar Western Europe, moving toward a social democracy. The Supreme Court opened the floodgates for corporate money into politics when Lewis Powell, a former corporate lawyer, was appointed to the court in 1972.
