Response to Provocation of the finest kind:

I find irony in the fact the populist poor (or so they percieve themselves to be) have taken up the banner of class warfare.
Who do they think will win? The poor? Since when has that ever happened?
Not only have they failed arithmetic, they have apparently failed history as well.
As ever, they are pawns played by wishful masters-to-be against the masters-now-in-power. Though the faces change, 'The Masters' will remain, and the poor will be unchanged.
In the end, you will only trade the shards of your republic for the oppression of a new master, and his rules, facist or socialist, it matters not. A new title to an old tryanny you can do nothing about.
Jesus meant it when he said it: the poor will always be with you. And there's a reason for that...