Identifying The Real Enemy

THE ONGOING SITUATION just outside St. Louis is an echo of a demon which refuses to die;racism, poverty, inequality, resentment, violence, militarized police. In many American communities, particularly African American and Hispanic communities, nobody, including crime victims, wants to have anything to do with the police, with local or national government, or American society in general. And who can blame them? When you're at or near the bottom of the lower ninety nine percent, its a long, hard look up to see the top, hard to discern one's ultimate masters. The real enemy in St. Louis is of course not the poor terrified police officer who killed the young black man. The real enemy is the system which creates too many angry, impoverished, and futureless eighteen year olds. We might all wish to hasten to Ferguson, Missouri forthwith and turn the protest-demonstration, or whatever is it by now, into a new and revitalized Occupy Wall Street movement. Them folks had the real enemy accurately identified; our corrupt political and economic systems. While we're at it, we can protest the culture, spoon fed to us by our corporate overlords, the same folks who brought you the great recession, and the permanent poverty class in America, roughly forty percent of the people. Forty percent of the American people are right now financially stressed - in debt, bankrupt, or barely making ends meet. The gap between rich and poor ever widens. Political, economic collapse and revolution are more likely than you may think. A war between the rich and the poor. Pray it won't be necessary.