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Csonicgo said:
So, what do you think is going to come of all this? This isn't like the scientology protests or the tea party protests-- people are actually staying for days.
The Tea Party things were funded and encouraged by people such as the Koch brother. The ideology they were defending -- one of not taxing the rich and of not helping the poor -- was entirely in line with the agenda of the dominant financial caste, that is to say, money is more important than lives.
Occupy Wall Street, on the other hand, is exactly the contrary. It's people fed up by the exaggerated place that the financial caste has taken over the rest of society. It's people who think human lives are worth more than money.
There's a saying that money is a good servant but a bad master. OWS wants money to be nothing more than a servant to human interests. TP wants money to remain our master.
This is especially important because there's a growing trend of people rejecting the current brand of capitalism. From the Arab Spring (against thieving dictators who pillaged their own countries) to the Spanish and Portuguese Indignados (inspired by this book, the protests in Greece against the futile and destructive "austerity measures", even Israel is protesting... It seems like the populace is no longer believing that There Is No Alternative. And it's not just hippies anymore.
So, it is really important to demonize and ridiculize these people. To make it look like they're just a bunch of clowns with no real plan. What they demand -- to put democracy ahead of financial power -- is so unimaginable that the news media are pretending they're not hearing it.
It's like when Warren Buffett said that the rich like himself ought to be taxed more. It's something that he had said for years, but people weren't listening. Now, though, with the financial crises that have been going on for years, never ending and all blending in a single continual crisis, that message is being heard. So instantly there was a desperate counter attack organized, trying to paint Mr. Buffett as a communist. Which is silly.
We've been living for so long in a world where a bunch of institutions -- mostly the WTO, IMF, and others -- were allowing speculators to overrule democracies and where excessive consanguinity between the three milieus of politicians, businessmen and journalists allowed to dismantle and pillage the wealth of the nation for the profit of a few; with nobody credible objecting. Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, any voice that argued for keeping checks and balances over capitalism was easily dismissed. We were getting a trip back in time to the practices of the late 19th century.
The risk is that this gilded situation might stop. The Tea Party movements are proponents of the status quo -- the only thing they want is to keep dismantling the state ever faster so as to allow the unmitigated rule of wealth wreck the lives of 95% of the population. They are fools, sheep clamoring for wolves to be crowned lords of the herd, so of course they are to be coddled for as long as they are needed. The Outraged and Wall Street Occupiers are a very real threat, so they have to be harshly repressed and cruelly mocked. The Cultists of Mammon will do everything they can to stop them.
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