The wealthy not only manage the financial, industrial, retail. communications (TV and radio) and healthcare sectors of the economy, but they manage the charitable giving sector too. That means that wealthy people manage the non-profits, sometimes directly through board memberships, and sometimes indirectly through "gifts" and foundation grants and endowments.
Of course, they have neatly tied up their control and ownership of the government too.
Basically, our entire culture, our entire nation is pretty much run by the rich for the rich.
The only exception is the internet, maybe. And if you are really, really poor, and not just formerly middle-class now impoverished, you can't afford a computer or internet access, so you are pretty much reduced to no social power at all.
And if you want to volunteer for some great sounding cause, you will probably be asked to give a donation or buy tickets for something and your status with the organization for which you are volunteering will be determined by how much money, not how much time you give. There are exceptions, but you are lucky if you can find them.
I am cynical about charitable giving and non-profits as you can tell.
We really have to change this, and the only way I know to do it is to raise the marginal tax rate on the wealthy and fund a lot more of the charitable projects with that tax money.
For those of you who think that Occupy is purposeless and that the Occupiers should be working through the established political process, please keep what I have said in mind.
I am speaking from experience. This is not a conspiracy theory or conjecture.
So, if Walker wins, it will be because he has the power of the wealthy behind him, and they run things. Democratic or Republican, makes no difference, we are beholden to the wealthy. Our society has reached a point at which no one matters unless they have money.
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