occupy america

one of the good things that has come out of the OCCUPY WALL STREET protests and the police response to it (tear gas, pepper spray, beatings etc) is that the american public is finally seeing the dark underbelly of our capitalistic society, where the bankers who sold toxic mortgage securities and thus caused the financial meltdown are not arrested, not charged, not vilified but are given bonuses of millions of dollars while the average person on main street is left jobless with the strong possibilty of homelessness, occupy wall street people are beaten with batons in new york city, a iraq war veteran was hit with a tear gas canister fracturing his skull and sitting students are pepper sprayed in california. (incidently pepper spraying a prisoner who is sitting down even during a riot is not only forbidden if a guard does spray a sitting prisoner they are subject to dismissal...which means that murderers in prison have more rights than peaceful protesters on the uc davis campus) as pogo once said, "we have found the enemy and it is us."

our capitalistic economy has failed all but the ultra/uber rich and the people of this once great country are left holding the bag. i have said this before but it bears repeating....revolutions happen when the poor and the middle class unite because they are BOTH being fucked by the ruling class. the ruling class used to be the royalty but now it is the corporations and the ultra rich; we live in an oliarchy not a democracy. we are spoon fed candidates who are beholden to the monied people who support their campaigns so we get to choose not the lesser of two evils but the equal evils "running". citizens united is an insult to all of us who cherish our democracy; corporations are NOT PEOPLE.

i am so mad right now that i could spit. my words fail me and violent behavior is not in my make up but revolution is in the air and in my soul.