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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSometimes it feels like this was the main accomplishment of OWS: a whole lot of tightened sphincters
When I was a kid, I was taught that the beauty of a democracy, and a nation of laws-not-men, was that it makes violent revolution unnecessary. If the powerful can be brought to justice in the courtroom, or voted out of office, then there's just not much need for the torches and pitchforks.
But the plutocrats bought our democracy, and turned us into a nation of men-not-laws. And if the possible consequences of that have them a bit fucking worried, then maybe a few of them are still thinking after all.
This is my fear, and its a real, legitimate fear, Greene says, revving up the engine. You have this huge, huge class of people who are impoverished. If we keep doing what were doing, we will build a class of poor people that will take over this country, and the country will not look like what it does today. It will be a different economy, rights, all that stuff will be different.
More often than not, fears like these manifest as loathing for the current administration, as evidenced by the recent wave of Romney fund-raisers in the Hamptons. Obama wants to take my money and give it to do-nothing animals, one matron blurted at a recent party at the Pierre for Dick Morriss Screwed!, the latest entry into a growing pile of socioeconomic snuff porn geared toward this audience.
http://nymag.com/news/business/themoney/jeff-greene-2012-8/
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(9,154 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)I doubt that it will ever come to a revolt similar to a mob populist revolt.
Not any time soon. It is far more likely that the message will be controlled enough that most would just lay down and take it, particularly if it is coming from the party that they support.
More likely than not, things will end up similar to conditions on workers in China before such a thing happens here.