Burgess Owens: “I have chosen to sort of use a theme of class warfare. There is no class warfare in America. When we raise that issue…”

“I have chosen to sort of use a theme of class warfare. There is no class warfare in America. When we raise that issue, people get excited. I agree with everybody who says there is no class warfare. The problem is the ruling class has completely pacified the swindled classes. The swindled class includes more than the working class, I assure you. The simple-minded notion of the communist, that there is a war of working-class folks against the rich, et cetera, that is very simple-minded. It is much more complicated than that. There are swindled classes in our democracy, and they are not fighting back so there is no war. One of the duties of the Congress should be to make certain that we stir our people up and start a war, an overt war. That is what democracy ought to be all about, a war of ideas and a war of confrontations with policies and principles that guide the way we live.”