Also posted on dA of all stupid things, but copypasting my kinda rant here because relevance.
As someone who had started looking for a job since right before the market crashed, it really steams me when the rich just keep getting richer and are able to exploit loopholes and bend rules just to see a little more green line their pockets when they have more than enough to live by, while regular people like my family and millions more get shafted into living lives with no luxury and still have to eat lower and lower quality food as the years pass just for basic survival as prices for everything keep getting higher and whatever law or regulations that get passed to benefit us in the long run keeps being insisted on being repealed for being "unconstitutional", "socialist", "unnecessary" while laws and regulations that only serve corporations and the wealthy for the short term or infringe on a person's rights continually vie to be passed for whatever crazy reason, whether originating from Democrats or Republicans.
Yes, I orient myself as a Democrat. I honestly feel the overall, general message with that political party is "Everyone, regardless of race, color, religion, sex or sexual identity, sexual orientation, mental handicaps or disabilities, economic situation, our youth, our students, our children, and our children's children, should all have an equal chance in succeeding in life, however that may be on an individual matter so long as any group's human rights are not infringed upon".
The situation right now with the Occupy movements is that the equal chance everyone should be given, at least on the economical point of view, has being grossly infringed upon for years, and has grown to the point where groups that are being stepped upon, will be stepped upon, and even sympathizers, whether from the 99% or the 1% are saying 'No. This cannot go on like this anymore. The common folk are sick of being ignored in favor of corporations who have no interest in thinking of anyone but themselves, and for the politicians who let the corporations get away with this blind avarice from either having their souls sold to these corporations in turn for a political seat or through simple minded naivete. We want to take back this country, that was made by the people, for the people, that has since grown in recent times to become a country fabricated for the wealthiest, by the wealthiest'.
From time to time I will agree with Republicans on some issues, though. If we want social security to last, then the retirement age should be raised, because, to put it in simplest terms, everyone is living longer than when FDR was in office by 10 years on average. And I don't like it when Democrats are spending hundreds of billions on reform and bailouts, but we honestly wouldn't have to do that in the first place (or at least not as extreme) if the wealthiest corporations and richest people played by the rules in the first place and didn't let selfishness and avarice get the better of them. And unfortunately if corporations and the lavishly wealthy don't voluntarily agree to play by these rules and be good sports about any loophole and just not exploit them, then those particular groups should be forced to with new laws and regulations.
And to put it simply with "What is the 1%/99% deal anyway?" the 1% has control of 42% of the nation's wealth, with the remaining 99% having 58% control (numbers not seen since the Great Depression). If we go with 10%/90%, it's 81% and 19%, respectively. I'm still appalled that the media is still trying to portray the Occupy movement as having no message. A simple Google check to Occupy's websites will tell us what their overall message is. And as far as 'Occupy is unorganized' goes, of course there's going to be SOME disorganization to a movement that is leaderless and encompasses an economic group that has over 297 million members in a 300 million+ country. And whether intended or not, having a protest group have no leader can be construed as symbolism to how the movement thinks our leaders have abandoned them, leaving them to fend for themselves. Then again that's my literary analysis reflex talking.
In short, the Occupy movement is something to be taken seriously, because the rich are getting richer and richer through exploitation and it has to be made clear that it has to change now. Not tomorrow. Not a year from now. Now.
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