Class Warfare: it takes two to tango

I'm growing to resent the term 'class warfare'. Like much of the terminology we use the GOP is massaging the definition. In this case they are trying to change a term that refers to conflicts between classes to one that refers to leftists sicking the poor on the rich. They will keep on this until 'class warfare' is synonymous with 'player hating'.
I'm not sure yet if this is intentional or serendipitous. Populist uprising takes much more organizing than oppression, and hence happens more publicly. Oppression is so easy for the powerful I doubt they are aware of the extent of it when they do it or compliant with it.
When a river gets polluted by a factory, the more economically endowed can move up river. If oil platforms cause the beach to be covered in globules of tar, they buy an island. When a country descends into chaos they become ex-patriots.  The poor don't have that option.
It is important to remind everyone that it isn't the fault of everyone on the upper echelon that the working poor are shit upon- but their complacency contributes to it. I can see why social justice is obfuscated from them. The river doesn't become polluted overnight. The tar doesn't arrive all at once. Entropy becomes obvious long before a country falls apart.
Being complacent until something affects oneself is not limited to the influential. Few fisherman defend the river until the fish are already depleted. Beach goes don't worry about tar when the platforms are being built. State workers are complacent until it becomes obvious that their well being is on the line.
By the time the lower echelons are organizing- they are foaming at the mouth- and the GOP points to them as examples of what class warfare looks like. They want to make it look like one sided aggression. Because to them organizing and yelling is aggressive but using a suit to contaminate or push people out of their neighborhoods isn't.
But like I was told as a child who got in a lot of school yard scuffles- it takes two to tango. But when we don't dance, it isn't a fight, we are just allowing ourselves to be bullied.