Corporatism is coming under attack both in Europe and now here. It has often puzzled me how we, as a people could not notice how 1% of our population has more wealth than the lower 90%. When would we notice? When would we notice that the system is being looted by the super wealthy and the corporations. When would we notice that our leaders are owned by the big money? When would we notice that it is common to privatize the profits and socialize the liabilities?
Well, it is beginning to look like it is now happening. True, the mainstream media is not covering it, or if they are it is to belittle the protesters but there is a story here and an articulation. Naomi Klein is one. Listen. http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/6/naomi_klein_protesters_are_seeking_change
Here too is a statement of intent by the more organized. This thing is for real and may make the revolution move a bit faster than is comfortable. But it will happen and just maybe we can get some democracy back along with some new form of stable state economics. We live in interesting times.
From the protesters:
-President Obama "ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington".
-This protest represents a variety of demands with a common statement about government corruption and the excessive influence of big business and the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans on U.S. laws and policies.
-Raising taxes on the rich, raising taxes on corporations, ending corporate welfare, support for trade unionism, and protecting Medicare and Social Security in their traditional forms are expressed by some participants.
-Occupy Maine is asking for an investment in public transportation infrastructure and the return home of Maine National Guardsmen from wars overseas.
-Other protesters are calling for an audit or elimination of the Federal Reserve, affordable healthcare, dismantling the military-industrial complex and to end all wars.
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