The OWS movement is more important than our American elections at this point, in my opinion. Both political parties serve masters other than the American people. There are a lot of seductive pleasures in the world today and it takes some serious abuses to get Americans away from the TV screen and out of the house and willing to sacrifice personal pleasures and comforts to voice their outrage at a system that has been bought and paid for.
What should be next is mass protest for the recent unprecedented attack on civil liberties being made by the present and past governments. The US has always been a country where certain rights and freedoms regarding detention and trial were a given. But in the hands of a very few the nature of the country will be forever different
Wisconsin is waging this war right now. The Koch brothers, through shadow organizations, release a television spot nearly simultaneously with Governor Scott Walker's actions. It is repeated time and again. Right now there are TV spots propping up his accomplishments as it these is all good for the people of the state. They are not. If it takes propaganda from billionaires to tell us how good our governor is - you can conclude it isn't.
People protesting all over the world are fed up but the fact remains for those in Countries like Canada and the U.S. they themselves in many instances are to blame or at the very least their parents. For 50 years citizens of the free world in most locations have been swallowing the trickledown economics of conservatism as fast as it can be served to them. The protesters are right but they also have to recognize who is causing the problem and then vote to correct the problems.
Just as nobody knew where it would end when Thomas Paine handed out his booklets, nobody knows where OWS will end, but the underlying fundamentals are the same, We, as Americans, must make sure that we run our country and not allow a bunch of bought and paid for politicians decide our fate,
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