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We are the 100%.
Politics, like any other marketing snowjob, is about segmentation – dividing the market into small, manageable groups that have common traits. Politicians, who are highly corrupt marketers, love segmenting their constituents and selling to different groups differently. When politicians cannot adeptly cajole diverse groups with contradictory messages, they commit monogamy with the largest voting block. Whatever the politicians’ approach, the results are the same – the willful dividing of people, pitting one group against the next for the sake of power.
The fact that the American Association of Political Consultants exists is a sure sign of the icky intersection of marketing and democracy, and perhaps a sign of the Apocalypse.
Topmost among political wedges are economic classes. People without loads of lucre often envy those who have gobs of the stuff. Thus, when parasitic politicians (forgive the redundancy) want to spend money but cannot suck any more blood out of the middle class without killing the host, they gladly whip into frenzies select folks hanging onto lower economic rungs. Since the dignified working poor do not auto reflexively attack the wealthy simply because well-to-do folks are lucky, smart or work harder, politicians assemble malcontents who favor theft through government. In order to incite mob mentality, they construct simple and misleading memes around which simple minds gather.
Which brings us to the fake 99% and Theft Phase II.
An odd uniting factor behind the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street mobs is their resentment of government bailing out failed banks. Unlike the Tea Party that works toward unelecting congress critters who toss the Constitution onto a pyre with broken campaign promises, OWS campers are now asking for theft that favors them. Many young and seemingly unemployed (and unemployable) protestors are demanding that the government nullify their student loans, and are threatening to stop payments if their self-interests are unmet. Simplified, the kids who hate bank bailouts want personal bailouts.
Greed breeds hypocrisy.
Happily, OWS groups who falsely claim to be the 99% (i.e. everybody aside from the super rich) are spiritual kin to the Dixiecrats. They demonize minorities and, through government, savage them. Dixiecrats and Occupiers alike want to wield the armed hand of government, using police and prisons to plunder those they hate. They seek to take from people what is rightfully theirs for bigoted satisfaction and personal gain. Thankfully, statistically irrelevant OWS denizens will wither as did the Dixiecrats.
Which leaves us. You, me, our neighbors. The People. Those who defend every man’s freedom and never seek to lessen honest gains. We are The People who understand “one nation, indivisible” begins with unity around the core principle that all men are created equal, and in that equality, no one shall be forced into indirect slavery. We are The People who always defend the egalitarian notion that we depend on one another to remain independent.
We are the 100%.
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