That is the reality. The ‘Collective’ asks for sacrifice. Today’s evidence in the budget deficit tells us that some have not sacrificed enough. The dumb masses are led to believe that the evil rich will pony up more to maintain their standard of living but those who understand the math are wide awake to the fact that force will be necessary when the SHTF.
Who gets to be the scapegoat?
You touch on something that's extremely important I think. Utopian (eventually totalitarian) political movements invariably find some segment of society to marginalize, and as you say, 'scapegoat.' Hitler had his Jews, Stalin had his Kulaks, and now the utopian monsters in our own government are attempting to do the same thing to free-market capitalists and wealthy people. Though they are as rapacious as all other utopians, and are unequaled at dividing people by race, sex etc., the philosophical bedrock of the American left will always be envy.