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I think that's exactly the grandparent's point.

Those conflicts are all the pretexts - they believe that it's actually class war and the other labels are all used to avoid calling it by its name.

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It isn't class warfare if the two (or more) sides aren't divided by class.

What OP meant was the income and wealth gaps are they only things they care about, not the only things that are real.

No, it's the empirical fact that the US is a plutocratic oligarchy. The oligarchy runs the economy, the government, and the media for its own benefit, and is violently opposed to anything that challenges this.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

How do you "empirically" prove something of that sort?

I for one look at Trump or the previous Tea Party change in the Republican party as anything close to having a static group of elites controlling the country

Of course it's a static group of elites. They might not all agree with each other but they definitely all used to hang out on Epstein's island together

It's all the same group, despite the politicking in the public sphere

Taxonomy is never perfect. What's the most obvious one that seems watertight? I'll tell you the holes in it.

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