Forum Post: If you want to make the Plutocrats Shake...

Expose their hypocrisy by demanding a competitive economy. Their actions over the last 30 years have been to usurp the political, regulatory, legal, and economic systems. They have manipulated the credulous by claiming their subsidies and exemptions were to increase market-efficiency. In reality, this has locked-in inefficiencies which they have used to maximize their influence and coffers. Some of them have even figured out a way to rationalize this. If this movement is to instill lasting change, then it must remove this veil.

The prerequisite for an efficient market is justice, some measure of equity, and equal opportunity. These are American values, these are universal values, that not even the 1% can deny.

If this movement does not create a platform of shared values, and if these values are not founded on our core ideals, then this movement will be twisted and marginalized by those vested interests of the status quo. They will use the perorations of those bold idealists among you, who envision a far better world, but who are demanding things in the near term that cannot only be achieved through a long transformation--both inner and outer.

Your demands should remind everyone of what we are really missing in our society--shared responsibility and shared profits. For these reasons, and others, the most effective way to bring justice to corporations, and to heal the corruption in our society, is to publicize their hypocrisy. There is no better way to do that than in a unified voice wherever they try to hide.