"Austerity" is a Conspiracy against Humanity

[ljm2002]

5. The 99% are chicken because...

...we are divided. So we don't feel like the 99%.

black / white
religious / secular
urban / rural
liberal / conservative
political / apolitical
middle class / working class / poor / homeless
union / nonunion
public sector / private sector
male / female
anti abortion / pro choice
"hard working" / "lazy freeloaders"

All of the above are used to divide us, and apparently we are all too willing to go along.

It won't change until the 99% begin to see our common interests. Right now, we're as divided as I ever remember us being, and that includes during the Vietnam era.

Occupy seemed to offer some hope to change that. I'm still hopeful. Some days. Certainly if the 99% ever got off our collective duffs and pulled together, we could put the 1% in the rightful place, which is pure irrelevance. Nothing to do with guns or violence. All it would take is for all of us to just not do their bidding one day, one week, one month... whatever it takes to shake the phony power structures we are laboring under.

Unfortunately, right now humanity seems to be laboring under some form of mass insanity where we allow ourselves to be manipulated into doing things that benefit no one except for the sociopaths running things. Any suggestion that the existing order should be changed is met with howls of outrage from the Very Important People.

It sucks.