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Class Warfare That Will Shape Election 2014 By Joel Kotkin

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Mariglen Verjoni
Freshman Seminar
Professor La’Shannon
3/9/16
The article “Divisions in the One Percent and Class Warfare that Will Shape Election 2014” by Joel Kotkin is about how can people can spread property ownership and how can they improve opportunity in each and every social class in the United States of America. Kotkin was mainly focusing on how each social class has different traditions or beliefs on the elections and because of the inequality in each social class it could affect the 2014 presidential election. Throughout the article Kotkin when on and on about how that there is only “one percent” which is mainly Americas wealthiest individuals, but also it refers to all the wealthiest people in the world and then there is the …show more content…

In the short passage the lower income individuals or families were divided by kotkin believing that, the top one percent were trying to win two certain sections and those were the yeomanry and the clerisy. The yeomanry and clerisy are both similar and different and they are similar because they can change the political view and they are different because a yeomanry is defined as they are middle class property owners and a clerisy are university professors and government officials but those of these statements written in the passage were thought of by kotkin himself. I believe that everything that the author is trying to say is based on opinion but he backs up some of his claims with logical reasoning which can really change other individual’s minds. .For example, “he states that in 2012, nearly 96% of donations from Ivy League employees went to the presidential campaign”. He also used many facts and statistics when describing of the sections that he has been mentioning and about the yeomanry he stated that they are the main tax payers and they do …show more content…

I believe that his point on the gap between the rich and the poor is completely accurate. The inequality between social classes and the lack of spreading of wealth and property needs to have some reform. The fact that our government is being swayed by the bank accounts of the one percent is not beneficial to the American people. There was a quote in the article by Louis Brandeis that states “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” I believe this quote to be very accurate because our government is turning in this direction of the wealth gap isn’t closed. Wealthier Americans today are using their money to sway the minds of people with less

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