DEI is Pincer Class Warfare

The Strategy to Undermine Middle America

Middle America is more than just a region — it's the very backbone of this country. It comprises hardworking men and women who strive to build better lives for their families through grit and perseverance. These individuals embody the ideals of meritocracy, where effort and ability lead to success. But in recent years, there's been a quiet betrayal unfolding. A calculated strategy — pincer class warfare — is eroding middle America's stability and potential.

What Is Pincer Class Warfare?

A pincer movement is a classic military tactic: two forces attack simultaneously from opposite directions, trapping the target between them with no escape. Pincer class warfare applies the same logic to the American class structure. The elites — the top 1% who possess immense wealth and influence — don't confront middle America directly. Instead, they attack from above while cultivating a second front from below.

The second front comes from a group motivated not by ambition but by resentment toward the success and stability of the middle class. This group isn't striving to achieve middle-class success through hard work and determination. Instead, they focus on discontent — resenting others who've built better lives through diligence. The elites exploit this resentment as a weapon, presenting themselves as allies to the underprivileged while quietly targeting the success and influence of middle America.

But why is middle America the target caught between these two forces? Two significant reasons explain this:

Middle America Does the Work — They are the productive core of the nation, providing the labor, innovation, and structure that keep everything running. For elites, this makes them a valuable source of productivity to exploit.

Middle America Values Integrity — Guided by religious and moral principles, the middle class often acts with goodwill and fairness. These values, while noble, make them vulnerable to manipulation by elites who cloak their intentions under virtuous narratives.

How the Pincer Works

Here's how the two arms of the pincer close. The elites use policies and narratives that claim to support those struggling, framing themselves as champions of fairness and equality. However, these tactics are carefully designed not to uplift the underprivileged but to strip resources, opportunities, and influence from the middle class.

The arm from above: Take economic policies. On the surface, they claim to tax the wealthy and redistribute wealth to those in need. Yet in reality, they target small business owners and working families with regulations and taxation that impede their ability to get ahead. Meanwhile, the largest corporations receive loopholes and advantages that protect their dominance. The elites write the rules, then exempt themselves.

The arm from below: Social narratives play the complementary role. Elites emphasize equality and fairness, but these ideas are deployed to diminish the importance of merit and hard work. By shifting focus away from effort and destroying meritocracy, they ensure their children and inner circles advance to the top, even if they've done little to earn it. The resentful class provides the moral fury. The elites provide the institutional power. Together, they crush the middle.

This creates a system where connections matter more than capability, and the middle class is squeezed from both directions. Hardworking individuals are asked to shoulder greater burdens while receiving fewer rewards, disillusioned by a game rigged against them from above and below.

The Long-Term Goal

The ultimate purpose of pincer class warfare is the concentration of power at the very top. By displacing middle America and dismantling meritocracy, elites create a self-perpetuating cycle of privilege. Their children glide into top schools and positions of influence based on wealth and status rather than ability.

Meanwhile, the rhetoric of fairness and equality pacifies the lower arm of the pincer. Even if their lives do not improve, the resentful group feels vindicated when the middle class is undermined. They mistake the destruction of someone else's success for their own advancement.

And middle America? They're left confused. They wonder why the rules keep changing. Why does hard work no longer translate to upward mobility? Why do their families struggle more while achieving less?

This is the price of pincer class warfare — a deliberate two-front assault designed to keep middle America trapped, all while consolidating wealth and influence at the top.

Affirmative Action and the Elimination of the SAT

The pincer strategy becomes particularly vivid when we examine college admissions — specifically the implementation of affirmative action and the push to eliminate the SAT. These policies are often framed as promoting fairness and equal opportunity. But dig a bit deeper, and it becomes clear they are the two arms of the pincer closing on the middle class in the place where merit matters most: the gateway to opportunity.

Affirmative Action: The Lower Arm of the Pincer

When affirmative action was introduced, its goal was noble — to create opportunities for historically disadvantaged groups and give them access to better education and jobs. However, over time it has become a tool that serves the pincer strategy.

The elites have co-opted affirmative action as a shield, using it to manipulate admissions systems in their favor. Here's what's happening:

Who Gains the Most? While affirmative action is supposed to benefit the underprivileged, data shows that affluent members of racial minorities often benefit disproportionately. The truly disadvantaged — those from low-income households — see slight improvement in access.

Holistic Admissions and Subjectivity — Legacy admissions, donor preferences, and subjective assessments like essays and extracurriculars dominate the process. These heavily favor students with access to expensive consultants and resources — the children of the elite.

Instead of empowering the marginalized, affirmative action policies often bypass them, delivering benefits to those who already hold relative privilege within their groups. For middle America, these policies represent the lower arm of the pincer — a shift in opportunities that once rewarded effort and skill, now redirected in the name of "equity."

Eliminating the SAT: The Upper Arm of the Pincer

The SAT once stood as a rare equalizer — a consistent measure of academic ability. No matter where a student came from, a high SAT score was a ticket to opportunity. But today, this test has come under relentless attack, painted as unfair and elitist. So why are the actual elites so eager to get rid of it?

The answer is simple. The SAT makes it harder for connections and privilege to dominate. A 1400 on the SAT means the same thing whether it's achieved by a student at an elite prep school or from an unknown public high school. The rich kid whose daddy bought his way into Harvard has more in common with the guy who never tried than with the farm boy who scored 1400. That's why both of them hate the SAT.

For middle America — those who may not have access to expensive tutors or Ivy League networks — the SAT represented a chance to succeed on their own merits. But for the elites, this objectivity is a threat. Without it, they can push their underperforming children into top schools under subjective systems like essays, interviews, and extracurriculars — factors easily manipulated with money and influence. This is the upper arm of the pincer: the elites removing the one tool that let merit compete with money.

The Pincer Closes on Meritocracy

Eliminating standardized testing completes the pincer. From below, affirmative action redirects slots away from merit. From above, the removal of the SAT ensures that no objective measure remains to expose the unqualified children of privilege. Without a fair measure, admissions rely entirely on subjective criteria that favor wealth, social connections, and perceptions of status. For middle-class families, this is devastating. Hardworking students lose out to less capable applicants whose main advantage is their family's financial clout — or their willingness to play the victimhood game.

The elites are destroying one of the last tools that leveled the playing field. And they're doing so under the guise of fairness — a cynical move cloaked in virtue, executed as a pincer.

The Bigger Picture

When we step back, the pattern is unmistakable. Affirmative action and the elimination of the SAT are not isolated reforms — they are the two arms of a single pincer designed to crush meritocracy between them. They create the illusion of fairness while dismantling the systems that once provided opportunity for all.

The elites are playing a long game, solidifying their control by ensuring the pathways to success remain increasingly opaque and exclusive. And once again, middle America bears the brunt of this manipulation, watching its opportunities shrink and its achievements devalued — attacked from both directions at once.

Reclaiming Fairness

Middle America deserves better — a system that rewards effort, talent, and skill without interference from those manipulating it for personal gain. Reclaiming fairness starts with understanding the tactic being used against you. It is not a one-front war. It is a pincer. Once you see both arms, you can stop fighting only the enemy in front of you and start asking who is directing the attack from behind.

Affirmative action, the elimination of standardized tests, and other policies driven by the elites are not about improving equity or opportunity. They are about consolidating power. And the cost of their actions is not just your opportunities — but the principles that make this country strong.

It's time to expose the pincer, stand up for fairness, and fight for a system where merit matters. Middle America isn't just the nation's backbone — it makes our world go round.