Forum Post: Occupy Wall Street is the new democratic revolution

Bravo! I support the movement 100%.

The fact that Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke and President Obama plus the major labor unions all got on the Occupy Wall Street bandwagon as the movement spreads across America very uplifting. Frankly, I was wondering when people would take to the streets and force politicians and corporate moguls to do the right thing.

Just as the Arab Spring kicked off the democratic revolution against tyranny and cast out some of the Arab world's worst despots, I Hope the Occupy Wall Street Movement gains strength and momentum to do the same to America's worst Wall Street and right-wing political tyrants.

Occupy Wall Street has obviously tapped into a wellspring of frustration among the American middle class. And I think this is a good thing going into the 2012 elections. Meanwhile, the movement needs policy and a rallying cry to focus all that energy. How about:

Give us back out jobs! Give us back our homes! Give us back our American Dream!

Or, maybe just “Tax the rich and greedy corporations now. We’ll put it to good use later.”

Meanwhile, President Obama has obviously set his sights on the fat cats, the greedy, amoral Uber-wealthy individuals and the unbridled, despicable corporate greed that decimated jobs, destroyed the American Dream and brought our economy to the brink of disaster only to enrich a very small segment of American society.

I've always believed that the American people are slow to anger. But once you piss us off, we are capable of unleashing an incredible amount of whoop-ass on the perpetrators. Those Tea Party crazies did it for the GOP. I am thrilled to see that Occupy Wall Street is doing it on the liberal side for the Dems.

I can cite a significant number of instances over the last century where the unleashed anger of the American people led to world changing events starting with the social justice reforms ushered in by President Theodore Roosevelt, FDR’s New Deal, LBJ’s Great Society and so on. On the world stage, Imperial Japan, the Third Reich, the Taliban, Saddam Hussein, even Moammar Gadhafi all learned that lesson the hard way.

At home in the USA, in every case where the American people were screwed blued and tattooed, either by the corporate robber barons or corrupt politicians; once we were sufficiently angered we stood tall to throw the bums out. That's what got Barack Obama elected in the first place. Obviously, our work is not over and the battle for socioeconomic justice continues.

In my youth during the 60s and 70s, we spoke of revolution and it happened slowly over 50 years after first ending another endless war. Now, I think it's time for another revolution to be carried forward by a new generation standing shoulder to shoulder the Boomers who lit the fires of social change back in my youth during the 60s and 70s. I only hope that this is the case with Occupy Wall Street. I suspect it is and it's great to see that President Obama has made this an important plank in his reelection campaign platform. Frankly, if I were healthy I would join the revolution again in a heartbeat. Power to the people! Down with corporate greed and political stalemate.

As an afterthought, I find it fascinating that very few commentators today are actually using the term "revolution". In fact, except for this website, I cannot think of a single mention of revolution. Yet, a rebellion it is against greed, exploitation and those who would obscenely enrich themselves at the expense of the American Dreams by hardworking, honest, taxpaying people.

Whatever they call it, I just hope that it leads to significant change. After all, isn't that why we elected Barack Obama in the first place? So, for the last two years, we were all sitting around expecting POTUS to do it all by himself. Now it's clear that we all have to get up off our fat asses and either join the revolution or at least make sure that Barack Obama and liberal Democrats get elected. Throwing the bums out has never been more important than it is now. No one is going to save the American Dream but us. Anything less could lead to snuffing out the American dream permanently. Keep in mind that by 2016 China, not the United States, will be the world's greatest economy. Let that sink in for a while and you’ll realize that the despicable greed of a few is on track to relegate the United States of America to second-class status. And all the bastards had to do to achieve this was to wage economic war on the middle class. I'm sure you'll agree that the more you think about it the angrier you'll become.

Hugs and kisses to all of you on the front lines. Stay strong.

Illegitimi non carborundum Don’t let the bastards grind you down).

Uncle Blowhard