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Class Warriors, Class Worriers, and Class Wimps

Democratic class war takes center stage as calls grow for Democrats to confront billionaires, inequality, and corporate power

EL CENTRAL by EL CENTRAL
June 25, 2026
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  • June 25, 2026
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The last time Americans faced such overwhelming evidence that the monied interests were screwing them over was the Great Crash of 1929 and ensuing Great Depression, resulting in the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, starting in 1933.

The one silver lining of the current Trump-Musk-Bezos-Ellison-Murdoch-Koch horror show is that most Americans now know beyond any reasonable doubt that they’re on the losing side of a class war and are justifiably pissed. 

America’s first trillionaire is a vicious white supremacist who’s stirring up hate around the world and backing Republican candidates with big bucks. American billionaires, meanwhile, are openly sucking up to America’s first dictator, spending lavishly on whatever he wants, and gobbling up media outlets so most Americans won’t know what’s going on.

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Where has this gotten us? Workers’ share of the nation’s income has now dropped to the lowest it’s been since records began in 1947, while profits’ share is the highest since 1950 (showing up in a rip-roaring stock market).

This is morally wrong. “Income from capital risks replacing income from labor,” Pope Leo wrote in Magnifica Humanitas, his recent encyclical letter.

It’s also undermining our democracy. “America has a choice,” the jurist Louis Brandeis is reputed to have said. “We can have great wealth in a few hands or we can have a democracy, but we cannot have both.”

It’s time for Democrats to take on the class war that’s being waged by the nation’s oligarchy against most Americans by becoming class warriors themselves.

By class warrior I don’t mean resorting to violence or name-calling. I mean recognizing that a billionaire class is bad for America and calling for bold changes to reverse it: taxing great wealth, busting up monopolies, strengthening labor unions, raising the minimum wage, demanding profit-sharing and capital-sharing, ensuring Medicare for all and a universal basic income, and getting big money out of politics.

FDR wasn’t afraid to be a class warrior: “Never before in all our history have [the monied interests] been so unified against one candidate as they stand today,” he thundered in 1936. “They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.”

But these days, most Democratic politicians are reluctant to take on the oligarchs. Other than Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Zohran Mamdani, who else is loudly doing it?

Instead of being class warriors, many Democratic politicians are class worriers. They openly worry that inequalities of income, wealth, and opportunity are out of control — but they won’t fight for what must be done. I’m talking about Third-way “moderate” Democrats who focus on “suburban swing” voters. and Washington-based consultants who urge Democratic candidates to move to the “center.”

Some Democrats are simply class wimps, so afraid of offending the monied interests that fund their campaigns they won’t even support modest reforms.

Even here in California, the putative home of progressive politics in America, too many Democratic politicians are wimping out. California Governor Gavin Newsom publicly opposes the wealth tax initiative now on California’s November ballot, for fear billionaires will leave the state (they won’t). San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie led the opposition to a city ballot measure to expand the city’s higher corporate tax rate on companies whose CEOs make at least 100 times more than their median employees. The measure was narrowly defeated.

This has to change. Unless Democrats stand up to the oligarchs now running this nation, there won’t be any alternative to Trump Republicanism in the future, or any reason for a Democratic Party.

This should be the Democrats’ hour. With inequality at levels never before seen, with a racist trillionaire and scores of billionaires poisoning our politics, with corporate profits at record heights while most American workers struggle harder than ever just to stay afloat, with a Republican majority in Congress slashing Medicaid and food stamps to finance a tax cut for the super-rich, with the looming threat of AI destroying jobs, and with one of the most brazenly corrupt politicians in American history now occupying the Oval Office — with all of this, Democrats should be at least as loud as they were under FDR.

The Democratic Party must seek to return to the American people the wealth and power that the obscenely rich have taken from them. This should be the core Democratic message. It explains the affordability crisis. It reveals the epidemic of corruption. It clarifies corporate welfare and crony capitalism. It shows what must be done.

Guerreros de clase, preocupados por la clase y cobardes de clase

Los demócratas deben enfrentarse a los oligarcas de Estados Unidos. He aquí cómo.

La última vez que los estadounidenses se enfrentaron a pruebas tan abrumadoras de que los intereses económicos los estaban perjudicando fue durante el Gran Crac de 1929 y la posterior Gran Depresión, lo que desembocó en la presidencia de Franklin D. Roosevelt a partir de 1933.

El único aspecto positivo del actual espectáculo dantesco protagonizado por Trump, Musk, Bezos, Ellison, Murdoch y Koch es que la mayoría de los estadounidenses sabe ahora, más allá de toda duda razonable, que están en el bando perdedor de una lucha de clases y están justificadamente indignados.

El primer billonario de Estados Unidos es un supremacista blanco despiadado que aviva el odio en todo el mundo y financia con enormes sumas a candidatos republicanos. Mientras tanto, los multimillonarios estadounidenses se arrastran abiertamente ante el primer dictador del país, gastando fortunas en sus caprichos y absorbiendo medios de comunicación para que la mayoría de los ciudadanos no se entere de lo que está sucediendo.

¿A qué nos ha llevado esto? La participación de los trabajadores en los ingresos nacionales ha caído a su nivel más bajo desde que comenzaron los registros en 1947, mientras que la participación de los beneficios empresariales es la más alta desde 1950 (lo que se refleja en un mercado bursátil en auge).

Esto es moralmente reprobable. «Los ingresos derivados del capital corren el riesgo de sustituir a los ingresos derivados del trabajo», escribió el Papa León en *Magnifica Humanitas*, su reciente encíclica.

También está socavando nuestra democracia. «Estados Unidos tiene una elección», se dice que afirmó el jurista Louis Brandeis. «Podemos tener una gran riqueza en pocas manos o podemos tener una democracia, pero no podemos tener ambas cosas».

Es hora de que los demócratas afronten la lucha de clases que la oligarquía nacional libra contra la mayoría de los estadounidenses, convirtiéndose ellos mismos en combatientes en esa lucha.

Por «combatiente en la lucha de clases» no me refiero a recurrir a la violencia ni a los insultos. Me refiero a reconocer que la existencia de una clase multimillonaria es perjudicial para Estados Unidos y a exigir cambios audaces para revertir esta situación: gravar las grandes fortunas, desmantelar monopolios, fortalecer los sindicatos, aumentar el salario mínimo, exigir el reparto de beneficios y de capital, garantizar Medicare para todos y una renta básica universal, y sacar el gran capital de la política. FDR no temía librar una batalla de clases: «Nunca antes en toda nuestra historia [los intereses económicos poderosos] han estado tan unidos contra un candidato como lo están hoy», tronó en 1936. «Están unánimes en su odio hacia mí, y yo celebro ese odio».

Sin embargo, hoy en día, la mayoría de los políticos demócratas se muestran reticentes a enfrentarse a los oligarcas. Aparte de Bernie Sanders, AOC y Zohran Mamdani, ¿quién más lo hace abiertamente?

En lugar de librar batallas de clases, muchos políticos demócratas se limitan a preocuparse por la cuestión de las clases. Les inquieta abiertamente que las desigualdades de ingresos, riqueza y oportunidades se hayan descontrolado, pero no están dispuestos a luchar por lo que es necesario hacer. Me refiero a los demócratas «moderados» de la Tercera Vía, centrados en los votantes indecisos de los suburbios, y a los consultores de Washington que instan a los candidatos demócratas a desplazarse hacia el «centro».

Algunos demócratas son simplemente unos cobardes en materia de clases sociales; temen tanto ofender a los intereses económicos que financian sus campañas que ni siquiera apoyan reformas modestas.

Incluso aquí en California, considerado el bastión de la política progresista en Estados Unidos, demasiados políticos demócratas están mostrando cobardía. El gobernador de California, Gavin Newsom, se opone públicamente a la iniciativa de impuesto a la riqueza que se someterá a votación en noviembre, por temor a que los multimillonarios abandonen el estado (cosa que no harán). El alcalde de San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, encabezó la oposición a una medida local destinada a ampliar la tasa impositiva corporativa más alta de la ciudad para aquellas empresas cuyos directores ejecutivos ganan al menos 100 veces más que el salario mediano de sus empleados. La medida fue rechazada por un estrecho margen.

Esto tiene que cambiar. Si los demócratas no plantan cara a los oligarcas que actualmente dirigen esta nación, no habrá alternativa al trumpismo republicano en el futuro, ni razón de ser para el Partido Demócrata.

Este debería ser el momento de los demócratas. Con una desigualdad en niveles nunca antes vistos, con un trillonario racista y decenas de multimillonarios envenenando nuestra política, con beneficios empresariales en máximos históricos mientras la mayoría de los trabajadores estadounidenses luchan más que nunca simplemente para salir adelante, con una mayoría republicana en el Congreso recortando Medicaid y los cupones de alimentos para financiar una rebaja fiscal a los superricos, con la amenaza inminente de que la IA destruya empleos y con uno de los políticos más descaradamente corruptos de la historia de Estados Unidos ocupando ahora el Despacho Oval… ante todo esto, los demócratas deberían alzar la voz con tanta fuerza como lo hicieron bajo el mandato de FDR.

El Partido Demócrata debe buscar devolver al pueblo estadounidense la riqueza y el poder que los obscenamente ricos le han arrebatado. Este debería ser el mensaje central de los demócratas. Explica la crisis de asequibilidad. Revela la epidemia de corrupción. Aclara en qué consisten las ayudas públicas a las grandes empresas y el capitalismo de amiguetes. Muestra lo que hay que hacer.

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