The Next Revolution

Last September 17, the Occupy Wall Street movement began spontaneously in New York City, and then spread to other american cities, and other places on the planet, particularly europe. It grew for weeks, became huge, then, as winter set in, grew fragmented, scattered, at times violent, and eventually withered away.

Then the question became, and remains: will it return? Not this spring evidently, though for a time it seemed that it might. But it will return. In some form or other, the occupy wall street movement, the revolt of the 99% agains the 1%, shall return, and it may be the beginning  of a war of the rich versus the poor. 

Gore Vidal remembers  as a seven year old in 1932, riding in the back of a limo with his grandfather, senator Gore of Oklahoma, a progressive democrat who nonetheless was not inclined towards socialism, the first senator in the hisotry of the new state, who, according to Gore Vidal, "didn't believe in giving anything to anybody."

The limo was being pelted by rocks thrown by "bonus marchers", in the great bonus army uprising in Washington D.C., that so few americans today seem to remember or know about. Vidal says that even at that young age, he realized that the unthinkable was indeed possible in america; a war between the rich and the poor.

And its still possible, maybe more so than ever, and if the possibility of an event remains above zero long enough, it will occur. In some way, shape, and form, the occupy wall street movement will rebirth, because the circumstances which prompted it in the first place have not changed.

The rich get richer, the poor become more numerous, and the number and percentage of americans, and indeed earthlings in general, oppressed by financial collapse and poverty is increasing. The lid will finally blow, as it nearly did last fall.

The symbolism of the 99% vs. the 1% is pure theatre; it may be more like 99.6% vs the .04%. Then too, far more than 1% support the policies and control of the 1%,  if only by default, by being sheepish and inattentive. But the symbolic theatre serves the purpose well; the purpose of protesting, opposing, and perhaps eventually overthrowing the corporate oligarchy which has absolute power over us, and which fosters exploitation of labor, grotesaue economic inequality, and militarism.

"If the people become inattentive to the affairs of government, the legislators and magistrates shall divide society into two classes: wolves, and sheep", said Jefferson. and he was right, except he couldn't foresee the corporate precipitation of the process.

Unless the trend of increasing political and economic inequality is reversed, which it won't be, the people's protest will come again, and this time, it might stay around.

Bb

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR THE OTHER ARTICLES IN TODAY'S ISSUE OF THE TRUTHLESS RECONCILER.THANKS!