plemur replied to your post: An open letter to all the Occupy [location] people

You realize that people are not asking for their individual problems to be fixed, but rather an end to corporate personhood, lobbying influence, and money buying outcomes of legislation while forcing loopholes that benefit only the rich, right?

I sincerely doubt that all the protesters are that altruistic. It sounds good in writing though, doesn’t it? Personally I can’t even afford to camp out in a park for two weeks to protest. In order to change our current system we would have to do away with our democratic republic and opt for a different style of government, and that sounds like revolution to me. Which also sounds like a really bad idea because our economy still struggles, we still have to figure out what to do about healthcare, so making these major changes right now would seriously destabilize our entire country.

Besides, I doubt Exxon, BP, Boeing, and GE gives a flying fuck about a few hundred protesters in a park somewhere. If you want to do something worthwhile, become filthy rich and crack the system from the top down. Of course, when you are filthy rich you will not want to change a damn thing about society. ;-)

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