Top down warfare is not happening because that is what the organizing principle the one percent is unified behind - after all, being rich in Sweden is vastly preferable to being rich in Zimbabwe, and the enserfment of the middle class is extremely counter to the interests of everyone that makes their money by actually making and selling things, rather than just being a corrupt banker. Poor customers means poor business, and the class solidarity exhibited by the upper crust is every bit as insane as the voting habits of Kansas. Single payer healthcare would almost certainly have saved the bacon of the Detroit automakers and countless other titans of industry, but lobbying for it was unthinkable to them because they were, and are, bamboozled by economic propaganda.

In other words, it is not a requirement of victory to defeat the unified ranks of the economic elite, it ought to be sufficient to break the heritage foundation, the clones of that foundation, and break the back of the finance sector.

In that order.