This is now class warfare.

College football’s conference realignment fluidity is a microcosm of the broader political tone enveloping the nation. When all else fails, blame the wealthy. It’s their fault because they won’t share.

Texas is somehow the villain in the impending demise of the Big 12.

Why?

The Longhorns are rich, powerful, influential and aren’t timid about reminding everyone about those attributes.

But maximizing your worth in this country requires an accompanying apology.

Texas justly has taken proper advantage of its natural resources — perhaps the deepest, most concentrated pool of supreme high school football talent in the country, a massive football-crazed population along with two of the top-eight television markets in the nation. The Longhorns are the biggest revenue producer in college football and have more than earned the business right of calling their own shots as it pertains to tapping into new revenue sources.

But it’s easier — and certainly more publicly receptive — branding the ‘Horns as evil, greedy, and devoid of a soul and conscience.

Expansion negotiations with the Pac-12 imploded because Texas apparently refused to share any of the potentially lavish TV revenues from their Longhorn Network relationship with ESPN.

My question to the critics is: Why should they give it away for nothing?

The biggest dog ultimately gets the bone of its liking.

The conference expansion rush isn’t slowing down anytime soon simply because the Pac-12 university presidents opted to stand pat — for the time being. The plan is to wait out Texas, the same as the Big Ten still waits for Notre Dame to come to its senses and realize — at least from the Big Ten’s perspective, anyway — that joining the conference remains the best financial and competitive option available.

Through time, the Irish inevitably will come crawling on the Big Ten’s terms. Nobody has seen one bead of sweat on Notre Dame’s brow after all these years. The same is true with Texas. When the Longhorns finally bolt the Big 12, they’ll set the conditions for admittance elsewhere.