for freedom, democracy, and opportunity, in the US. The only hope the 99% has for constructively and progressively increasing their opportunities in the future.
There are some issues with this piece because it presents a narrow "absolute truth" with no source citations or significant descriptions of historical conditions, and may be a biased and duplicitous attempt at justifying the takeover of the Democratic party by the DLC/1%. But if that is the case, it actually backfires.
The article does paint an accurate picture of the impossibility of significant constructive change being enacted through the political/legislative process.
It fully supports the widely held Occupy position of remaining apolitical, because the political process is irrevocably broken, due to the fact that it is totally owned by the 1%, and operates solely in their interest. Furthermore, there are no political/legislative means for the 99% to ever wrest control of the process from the 1% in the future.
It's totally lose-lose for We the People. Voting is little more than an annual chance to say "hooray for our side, hooray for our guy" while politicians in both parties continue to operate in the in the interests of their 1% owners. Any honest, well meaning Democrats are totally handcuffed by the system.
This sucks.
The "hard cold truth" is that when you (the Democratic Party) sell your soul to the devil (the 1%), you become the slave of the devil. The devil owns you from that point forward, and there's no going back. You sign in blood and you take the money, and you're damned to hell forever.
And then the bank takes the farm anyway.
A hopeless lose-lose situation.
It's always just better to stand up for what is right, and to do what is right, and figure out an honest way to win without selling your soul for false promises from the 1% devil. You cannot gamble with the devil and expect to beat the devil at his own game. He owns the house, and the game is always rigged, and he's watching your every move.
I am not advocating not voting, because there are some good Democrats, and there are no good republicans at all.
At least if Democrats are in office, we will have a slower, more comfortable ride down the highway to hell, and can maintain a glimmer of hope that Occupy can beat the 1% devil by not buying what he's selling.
From my POV, that's the best we can hope for.
May Day in the media
http://occupycentral.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/your-inbox-occupied-may-day-in-the-media/
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