The Media's Failure With the Biggest Story in the World

[BrotherIvan]

41. Sorry to butt in, but just a thought

I think what Dustlawyer is saying, and some other smart people too, is that public financing for elections is the key. I saw your list of all the causes you support and yours sounds like mine, multi-faceted and far flung. The rich have the ability to toss grenades on all of those things to keep us trying to put out the fires so we don't go after what they really care about. How many times have we seen a social issue come up to create a firestorm, and then quietly a new banking deregulation goes through or something to that effect. When Ferguson was dominating the news cycle, that's exactly what happened.

I think we do need to concentrate all of our values into a single theme and then fight for it. I keep thinking something on the scale of Civil Rights marches or the massive marches in India. But there is so much resistance to fighting because of fear of losing one's job or religion or what have you. All of which was planned. Look at how many DUers attack OWS regularly. For what reason, I'm not sure. But as long as we don't come together--and I'm not talking about wooing Republicans in the least--then we don't have the numbers to fight. But add in Europe, South & Central America, and people around the world who are ready for a general strike, and that number is pretty big.

So I don't have the answer. But the only solution will come on the scale of the labor fight.