The "Occupy" Movement, Class Warfare, Bill Maher, Dr. Cornel West & Ron Christie

I just got finished watching the latest Bill Maher show.  Definitely one of his better ones
His last guest was Ron Christie - a black republican ( a former Dick Cheney staffer, but not an elected official).

This individual's biggest point about recent demonstrations was that they are tearing at the fabric of American society.  That we must remain unified as a people and not resort to class warfare.  That democratic ideals of cooperation and compromise must be adhered to.

If the nation didn't exist as it now does, this might sound reasonable.  But it is intellectually insulting to pronounce identifying and addressing the concept of class inequality as a dis-unifying thing when growing class inequality is the status-quo.  When the entire 21st century has been an exercise in allowing the 1% to accumulate accelerating wealth at the expense of everyone else.  It's almost like this gentleman is saying that citizens do not have the right to question the concentration of 70% of the country's wealth in the hands of the top few percent of the population because that's the way it is and should be accepted as such.

I wonder what rights this person thinks that Americans actually do have?  If we can't protest policies that exacerbate the growing rift between the rich and the just-barely-getting-by-if at-all, what is left to protest?  History showed that the Vietnam War was ended largely through the voice of the people.  So just what segment of the population does this guy believe he is speaking for?  Obviously one must make a relatively comfortable living just to be guest on Maher's show in the first place.  Does this black man think that the civil rights movement so vital to his present status was an inappropriate attack on the unifying and just social fabric of American society in place  at that time?

Ron Christie and people of his ilk are dangerous.  When people attack or try to discredit appropriate activism  challenging basic unfairness by pretending to champion democratic values - it is beyond destructive.  It reveals an attempt to rely on constitutional authority to suppress the very ideals so very important to the magnificence of the Constitution itself.  The exact circumstances that the Constitution was promulgated to correct for the new democracy.

I wish Dr. Cornel West and the other guests had not been so quick to shake Christie's hand in gestures of conciliation at the end of the show.  Because the man doesn't deserve it.  His stance on on the state of our country and support of restrictions to any ability to equalize it is the type of thought process that can be found in the collapse of all the empires which faded throughout the course of recorded history.  One cannot defend what is inherently self-destroying from within since its foundation was ill built.