Message #9689

[uselesslegs]

The simplified version, at least to me, is that OWS is a coming together of individuals who want change...serious change.

By in large, they're labeled as "envious" at their core, which is what supposedly makes them different than the TP movement...who also want change, but are hard work'in 'Mericans and don't want no handouts...accept for Medicare/Medicaid, blah, blah, blah.

"Envious" is incorrect.  As Matt Tabbi has said, if this was class warfare, why now?  There have been rich people and poor people in this country since forever.  Why not during the Great Depression?  Why not in the 80's when Reagan made it fashionable to dump on the poor?  Why not during the many recessions in our history when 9 to 5 families were stretched thin as paper?

Simply...no one hates the rich.  They do however have a strong, almost visceral dislike of cheaters.  Becoming rich is one of the American Dreams.  Here, anyone (seemingly) has a chance...because the playing field is SUPPOSE to be set up in such a way that it's level for all.  Any pretext of this stopped in the 80's and it's tilting has finally been noticed by the masses who simply can't ignore the reality anymore.

Wall Street, Big Bankers and a lot of Corps., through years and years of lobbying, have shit on the level playing field and unbalanced the greatness of the American Dream specifically in their favor and are now forcing the average American to choose items to loose because of that unbalancing.  Programs, one by one, are on the chopping block to be sacrificed...that had this massive unbalancing not taken place...would otherwise be "problems" that were manageable...but now are seemingly paramount.

Average Americans are being asked to live with less, work twice and three times as hard (for less)...for the basics...THE BASICS...ALL BECAUSE...the cheaters, the unlevelers, want to keep that fat cash rolling in...but to do so...something has to give somewhere else...and that somewhere is the level playing field.  Yin and Yang is destroyed in the process and our conversation is polluted by rhetoric pointing everywhere else...except the actual problem.  Fucking cheaters, who want it all, threw our economy...the stability of the average citizen away...for some sweet fuckin greenbacks.  They infected our political process, they infected the dynamic of the economy, they even infected and changed the conversation to make people believe this bullshit is because the atypical American is SUCH a greedy fucker...that "we" brought on our own economic demise.  It's god damn BEAUTIFUL!  It's a work of dark fucking art!  I haven't seen this much manipulation since I first discovered whack'in off!