Now that Occupy Wall Street has captured the imagination of the bottom 99% everywhere and become a movement of global stature, I'd like to know what you think of the movement.  Your opinion matters, please take this poll.

Now that Occupy Wall Street has captured the world's imagination, it's a good bet that the party of "change" would love to turn it into a vote getting machine.  To hear why that's never going to happen, visit my  Listen Here! page.

What's next now that Occupy Wall Street is so big that the mainstream media can't intentionally ignore it?  Visit my  Listen Here! page for a suggestion that could get almost every ninety-eight percenter in!

By now I hope that everyone realizes that  the main reason that the good people at Occupy Wall Street are out in the streets protesting is because they, as members of the bottom 98% couldn't get their issues addressed by the "two" party governmental duopoly in Washington!  Both parties are still deeply engaged in their usual game of good cop/bad cop.  That game has a few simple rules that effectively takes government out of the hands of we, the people and hands it over to Wall Street, Corporations and the rich.

Here are the rules to two party good cop/bad cop (a.k.a. Two Party Flim Flam) 
as played by the Democratic and Republican parties.

• The Democrats make soaring populist campaign promises, evoking images of FDR AND JFK.  
  
• When or if they get elected, they make an attempt to fulfill those promises.
  
• If they have a majority, they don't force the issue, but try to seek a "bipartisan" solution.
  
• The Republicans have their own agenda which includes wiping out all the social programs that the Democrats have put in place since FDR, so they stonewall any Democratic legislation!
  
• The Democrats, being the good cops, compromise with the bad, bad Republicans and cut back on delivering their campaign promises.
  
• Since they really want to show the Republicans what nice people they are, they offer up bits of their earlier social safety net programs for sacrifice on the altar of corporate greed.
  
• If we, as the Progressives who were their strongest supporters, ask the Democrats why they caved and abandoned their campaign promises, they will say that it was because of those big bad obstructionist Republicans causing gridlock.
  
• They will then take it a step further and act as if WE are their opposition!
  

That's the way the game is played in Washington these days.  One side tries to shaft the bottom 98% and the other side tacitly cooperates.  Let me remind you that the same  corporate lobbyists visit the electeds of both parties!  The people at Occupy Wall Street have decided to ignore the politically motivated, corporate owned middlemen and bring their case directly to we the people!  I want to thank them for being the last glimmer of hope for true democracy in America!

In recent years, many of us started to believe that we can change a system that has evolved into what amounts to a corporate government by proxy by electing a politician with a catchy campaign slogan.   As we found out, for various reasons, things don't work that way.  Despite one man, one vote, in the present “two” party system, corporations and the rich DO have control of the hearts and minds of our electeds by way of their campaign contributions.  Therefore, throwing our energy behind ninety-nine percent of the candidates from EITHER of the two political parties is an exercise in futility.

The protesters at Occupy Wall Street are there because our electeds from BOTH political parties refuse to hold Wall Street accountable for creating many of the conditions that caused America's economic problems.  To make matters worse the people that we elected to represent US chose to give FDR's New Deal to Wall Street and the banks instead of the people who need it the most, the unemployed.  The wind up is that Wall Street is doing just fine, thank you, making those big bonuses.  The bottom 98% aren't doing that well in what seems like a permanently stagnant economy with frozen or reduced wages and constantly rising prices spurred on by greedy commodities speculators.

What galls me is that the same electeds that WASTED OUR money on tax breaks for the rich, Wall Street and Bank bailouts have the nerve to scream “we must cut the deficit!”  They want to balance the budget on OUR backs by cutting government jobs, services and “entitlements!”  Occupy Wall Street serves notice on them that our votes DO speak louder that corporate and Wall street bucks!  May this be the first of MANY protests and may it become a movement that is so powerful that we can make our electeds listen to us or replace them from a field of truly worthy candidates that are not necessarily part of the two-party duopoly!