Class Warfare vs. the American Founding

Ken Thomas at No Left Turns has a very thoughtful post on the always important subject of political language.  Ken argues that the language of class warfare hurts the conservative argument against the president and, on a larger scale, against the foundations of modern liberalism.  Here is Ken:

I'm not talking about Newt and Mitt, but about the "class warfare" complaint hurled against Obama. This attack in fact affirms Obama's point--that there are classes, two (or three) Americas, as it were. Such rhetoric reflects the victory of the Progressive mentality, which was to reject the individual rights and limited government language of the American Founding, in favor of talk about the progress of history and a ruling class of civil servants--nonpartisan, scientific administrators. That is the real "class warfare" that needs to be fought, but Republicans flunked American history. In fact Progressivism got its political start under the popular president TR.

In order to recover and reclaim the principles of the American Founding, we must recover the language of natural right as well.