It's getting more and more difficult to believe that the increasing tension between the economic classes is just par for the course and that it's no different from past flare ups. The poor resent the upper and investment class for hoarding wealth, and the upper and investment class resent the poor for taking from them via social programs. A Romney, or other wealth white politician, is seen as a tool to protect the wealth of the top, an Obama is seen as trying to redistribute wealth to the poor.
Put aside who is right: if there isn't a good conversation about this soon it makes you wonder about the nation's fate.