How Inflation Fuels Class Warfare Between Young and Old — and Why the State Wants It That Way

The False Promise of Democracy: Loot Before You’re Looted At the core of Mawhorter’s argument is a devastating truth: once the state becomes the primary means of wealth redistribution, peaceful cooperation gives way to zero-sum conflict. The free market rewards productivity and service. The state, by contrast, rewards political power and the ability to extract wealth from others. In democracies, this manifests as a vicious scramble: get your hands on the lever of government before someone else uses it against you. This logic doesn’t create prosperity—it breeds resentment, parasitism, and decay. And worst of all? The political elite—the “state caste”—not only profits from this chaos but depends on it to retain power. Real Class Conflict: Net Tax-Payers vs. Net Tax-Consumers…