The Takeover of our Democracy and our Economy by Wall Street

[Zorra]

4. Great post. But we will probably never be able to take our country back from the 1%.

Most progressives are either too comfortable or too afraid to take any effective action to remedy the situation. Many believe that voting will somehow magically solve this problem, and this is the most unrealistic expression of delusional woo of this century so far. Purple pigs will be flying over Peoria before voting will ever affect the 1% plutarchy in any way except make it stronger.

The only possibility of toppling the 1% is through citizen mass non-compliance with the system - boycotts, strikes, and civil disobedience.

The 1% are living in gated communities consisting of ivory towers.

The only way we can get them out of power is to get enough concerned people to surround them, and starve them out.

And as we can see with Occupy, there are only a very, very few people in this country who are courageous enough risk their well being in any sort of serious attempt to take back our democracy and our economy. It's really sad; sad, but true.