Europe has the longer history. Go back to the days of the wealthy/powerful living in castles and the rest of us poor schlubs ... well, you remember.
In college, early '70s I first read the term have/have-nots and I recognized my family as belonging to the have-nots, also ignorant as all hell, etc. Rich vs. not-rich has been the game for hundreds of years, with the rich calling themselves Conservative, Republicans, Tories, whatever ... I guess calling yourself the Rich/Powerful/Fuck You Party would give it away.
We need a new Party which recognizes the ongoing class warfare and will actually DO something about it WITHOUT SELLING OUT (aka Democrats).
As Obama has demonstrated, with the INTERNET, IT CAN BE ACHIEVED! In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
Still have to be patient. Obama's just the first edition. The netroots are still working the bugs out. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin