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Comment by Susan Sayler on January 13, 2012 at 9:03

And today I wrote this: Susan Sayler 

We are representative of 99% of American citizens. Some are old, some are young. Some are black and some are white. Some like rap music and some like country. We are supposed to be different and we are not supposed to all think, walk, talk and believe alike. We don't all desire the same things or have the same goals. Never gonna happen. We don't have a "platform".

Occupy is the rebirth of true democracy. We, the 99% are taking back our voice. We fell asleep at the wheel and wound up in a ditch. The 1% took advantage. Now we are waking up to the mess that WE made and we aim to remedy the problem. That may involve evicting several members of congress who think that they don't work for us. The truth is, we no longer need a congress. Technology has made it possible to communicate. We don't need to have mommy and daddy decide how we do our democracy.

We insist on consensus. We are tired of being represented by millionaires that have no interest or knowledge in the everyday life of the common man. When we operate a true democracy, we all get one vote. Sometimes the prevailing attitudes will swing right and sometimes they will swing left.


Case in point: right now the prevailing attitudes clearly show Ron Paul favored on all polls from both Twitter and Facebook -- and that represents the real population. Ron Paul is still a nobody on mainstream corporate owned media. Think about it. I don't endorse Ron Paul or anyone running for president, but I clearly see what is going on.

We are tired of playing into the hand of the rich and powerful. We got suckered into mortgages we couldn't afford. We got suckered into student loans.We got suckered into wars based on false premises. What part of this picture looks like shit?

Corporations aren't people. They don't give a shit about us. They have way too much power over our lives while at the same time they have no inbred conscience to rely on. We are being nurtured by piranhas.

We let it happen and it is up to us to fix it. We aren't taking any prisoners.

Consensus government is dynamic because it represents the collective; the sum total of everyone -- it is fair. The elite bankers should each get one vote equal to every poor immigrant farmworker. When that happens wait and see how long the 1% are able to maintain their dominance over us.

We reject the electoral college and paid lobbyists. We reject the two party system and their sports-like political contests that have left this country in shambles. 

Its not about the "odds" of "winning" a "race". Its about human beings and the quality of life for everyone. Its about actively practicing democracy.

Comment by Susan Sayler on January 13, 2012 at 8:40

About a month ago I wrote this blogpost on Occupy 2.0 http://theoccupymeme.blogspot.com/2011/12/occupy-wall-street-20-is-...

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2011

Occupy Wall Street 2.0 is Occupy All Streets

If you really think about it, the audience that the movement needs to cultivate is not members of Club 1% but of the 99% who fear too deeply what a change in status quo may require from them.

Occupiers should now go out in large groups to each and every neighborhood in America. We should go door to door and provide support for what the voiceless segment of the 99%ers are going through. We should patiently help the 99%ers who still need to work through their fears and objections to what OWS has on offer. We should humbly reach out to the ones who might want to help us.

Occupiers should peacefully invite local residents to talk about why they remain plugged in and in support of the 1%. When we are weary, we can only echo what has always been said by the weary. When these tentative 99%ers really feel the support of their peers, they too will indulge their imagination to see what possibilities might be if we were to unplug?

Local communities need to organize their own banks, own their own postal service, maintain their own roads, and regulate commerce by consensus of the district's voters. Local communities need to unplug from the federal  and state government. We should unplug from the two party system, and from elections that will only preserve the status quo.

Relationships developed between communities will define how they can best utilize one another's resources, man power, and real estate.We will develop agreements on shared law enforcement, fire fighting and hospital care. Every community should own all of its own land. Mortgages should only be generated by banks that are located within the district where the home or land is located.

The Rockefeller Family Trust made over eleven TRILLION dollars last  year. The Walton s that own Walmart made more money last year than the lowest earning 1/3 of the population in the United States of America combined. Do the 99%ers cling to the rich as children to disapproving parents?

The elite use their money to divide us and play us against one another. What if they couldn't do that to us anymore? What if no amount of money would make a 99%er turn his/her back on the other 99%ers? We are the family of man.

It is time to go out into to the neighborhoods of America. Perhaps we should have a few floats and drive convertibles with the tops down. It is time for town hall meetings and making new deals. It is time to overlook our differences and plan how we want the new world to look and feel to us. It is time to honor the environment and the rights of those generations that will follow us.

Comment by Martin Houston on January 10, 2012 at 18:31

What I suggest is that we pressure for all leading business and political leaders to be brain scanned to see if they are psychopaths. No excuses, no exceptions.

See this vid: http://youtu.be/6MWpxH-RlFQ

They are compulsive risk takes without conscience. Too many of them making the big decisions is perhaps why we are in such a mess. The common sense for the survival of the human race should be that being a psychopath should disbar you from any position of authority over others. We don't let blind people drive cars after all. It isn't discrimination, its sanity.

Comment by Mac Deprey on January 10, 2012 at 18:14

I love this social network. Would be glad to philosophize here to try and evolve what may/should/perhaps happen next.

Comment by David Jacob on January 5, 2012 at 7:33

Welcome! Feel free to create a discussion group for any topics that you are interested in that relate to the next stages of the Occupy movement

Comment by Jacob Mackenzie Cook on January 5, 2012 at 7:28

I'd like to see Occupy #J20 2013. Ya' know, for the inaugural speech. Start planning now, and it'll be big enough to make an impact on the crowds. Corporate media can't hide that.

Comment by Carolyn Ahlgreen on January 5, 2012 at 7:18

Ok, present and accounted for...