It's very puzzling. The Conservative's dream is a wealthy 2 or 3% and a poor underclass to serve them. And as you point out, that's the stuff of the French Revolution.

The middle class is what made the US great, and kept it great , and there is a great political party with enormous financial ability which is hellbent upon destroying the middle class.

Go figure. What is puzzling is that they call themselves patriots. While they fulfill Marx' prophecies. They couldn't do a better job if they were card-carrying Communists.

Our problems do not lay off-shore, they are internal. We don't need aircraft carriers, we need Unions.

Arf