Instead, on a daily basis, Very Smart People tell the likes of Joe Scarborough that it is “class warfare” when “the left” calls for the rich to pay taxes at the rate they did in 1999. Oddly, they never call it class warfare when they discuss proposed Social Security and Medicare cuts — that’s “reform.” I’m not taking sides here; I’m just noting, as Orwell and others have, the power of a simple change in language.
