Jon Stewart pointed out the other night on the Daily show how Fox news contributors and guests are actively ‘framing’ class warfare.
According to billionaire Warren Buffet, “While most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks, we have been coddled long enough.”
Coddling the rich, ironically, is what Fox news, and other advocates for the top .01 want us to believe about the poor in this country. Here is just a sample of the framing attempts being made by a host of contributors from Ann Coulter to John Stossel (of all people).
“It is all out war on the productivity class in our society for the benefit of the moocher class”
“The makers and the takers”
“They want to take it from someone else”
“Parasites we have out there depending on Government”
AND my personal favorite from Ann Coulter, “Welfare will create generations of utterly irresponsible animals”
The goal of framing is to constantly repeat the same or a similar message (eg, demonizing the poor) as indicated above, and then, in true Orwellian fashion, take the opposite of this reality (eg, demonize the rich) and attempt to convince people that this frame represents reality. In other words, “frame” your opposition for your actions, both linguistically and literally. Thus, demonizing the poor becomes, demonizing the rich! Watch this clip to see how Fox attempts to frame us.
Basically, these frames are used to distract all of “us” from the real moochers, takers, and parasites, who have rigged the system to “their” advantage, via manipulating the tax code, corporate welfare for transnational companies, welfare for corporate jets, paying poverty wages, outsourcing jobs, taxpayer-funded bailouts for big banks and austerity measures for all of “us”, and last but not least the 37,000 lobbyists in Washington who help make all this happen.
The bottom line: The ruling class find it necessary to say these things and frame reality in order to distract us from the devastating effects of income inequality that is literally destroying our very way of life. (see the about section for more on this)
In order for a select few of “them” to buy a corporate jet, a third yacht, and second vacation home in the Hampton’s, all of “us” must suffer. We end up taking a hit on our salaries, wages, benefits, pensions, extended work hours (unpaid, of course), loss of vacation time. Some even lose our jobs, our homes, become bankrupt due to rising medical costs, and may find ourselves joining the 1 in 7 Americans who are below the poverty line. The remaining jobs available are from wal-mart or some other transnational corporation paying poverty wages, which of course necessitate the need for food stamps. If the select few who own the corporations decided to pay descent union wages, then there would be no need for people to become dependent on food stamps and other government programs that “they” (and those they have convinced with their frames) so eagerly point out as being a moocher or taker dependent on government.
Ironically, the same ruling class who rigs the system to their advantage use their political and economic power that they derive from exploiting all of “us” (particularly our labor) and use it against us via the right-wing echo chamber (fox news and others) to convince us that the very people that are exploited by these practices deserve to be poor because they are inherently lazy and do not wish to work hard. They are quick to point out the end result of a chain of systemic causes (manipulating the tax code, election rigging, the 37,000 lobbyists in Washington buying off politicians, etc) without ever references how this process began, and why millions of people are joining the ranks of the poor, all thanks to income inequality.
When in reality, the simple truth is that “they” are only extraordinarily wealthy (top .01) because of shady practices, and exploitation of others, seemingly with no empathy whatsoever for the lives they destroy in the process. To put it in perspective, the top 400 households in this country own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population, or 154 million people combined!
As Jon Stewart pointed out on his show, the bottom 50% have a combined wealth of 1.45 trillion dollars, and would have to give up half of what they own (which is not much considering most are earning less than 22,350 per year for a family of 4) in order to raise revenue to the tune of 700 billion.
This truly is class warfare when fox news and other advocates of the top .01 are actively supporting the idea that the bottom 50% should pay more rather than close a few loopholes that the real parasites created to siphon off more of “our” tax dollars to “them” in the form of corporate jet subsidies, and other forms of corporate welfare the ruling class enjoy at our expense. What?
Obviously this is another attempt to frame the public and convince “us” that we should be angry at those who are truly being punished, the poor in this country.
But then again, as Warren Buffet commented, his class is winning the war!
STOP Framing "US" 
The reality is the War on the middle-class (if you can even call us that) is almost over. The soon to be extinct MIDDLE, has their attention on issues that are non-issues to either party. GUNS, we must protect our right to have GUNS!!! After 8 years of a Democratic White House we still had GUNS!! Abortion Rights!!! Protect our right to choose!! After 8 years of a Republican White House, this right remained. Neither the Democrats or the Republicans hold on to their core values. They use these pieces, just as they frame with “teacher tenure, merit pay, public pensions are killing the taxpayers”
Framing,is and will continue to be the desired method to distract us while we have are pockets robbed of our futures and blame one another. The two-class United States is fast approaching, maybe we need to frame that, to wake up the people from their apathy.