Now that the bloodless revolution is failing to save America from capitalistic greed and inequality the persuasion of force is on the march. They know what is good for you, what's right for you, what's best for you, what'll work for you-whether you know it or not, like it or not, want it or not.
Shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge is emblematic of what the tantrum throwing Occupy Wall Street, George Soros backed crazies want to do to America with an "anti-establishment, coast to coast general workers' strike." It's all over the Daily Kos. One screwball Fringer wrote, "If we have the power to shut down everything, we have the power to...take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the earth..... If they give us anything, it will only be in hopes that we'll be placated." But these loons are implacably totalitarian and won't be appeased short of total control of the economy and abolishing private property-the ultimate act of social justice and cure for inequality.
Another OWS nutter, quoting Mario Savio of the sixties Berkely Free Speech Movement, posted this piece of inflamatory rhetoric:
"There comes a time when the operation of the machine [the capitalist system] becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part; and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it STOP. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, the people who own it, that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all."
In other words, stop the evil machinary of free enterprise with its corruption and mal-distribution of wealth. And never be satisfied with power until all of it is in your hands; UNTIL there's equality of income, outcome and condition not just nationally but globally in a classless world society-with America paying its fair share. This is why there's no American flags at these rallies. It's not patriotic nationalism that drives these loons, its humanitarian transnationalism. It's less about fixing the American economy than about healing the planet of poverty, injustice and inequality-the leftist solution to brotherhood and global peace-what the Fringer above called "living in harmony with the earth."
The communist Fringe Springers at Daily Kos and around the country are seething with rage over Obama's failing presidency, and his "GOP obstructed" social justice agenda, and are starting to take action to move it forward. It's the gathering storm of mindless leftist mob violence (and Weather Underground terror) unleashed by Obama's divisive reelection soak-the-rich campaign. When bloodless class warfare and revolution doesn't work this is what you predictably get: Lenin replacing Alinsky.
THE BIG 99% LIE
When Fringers make the outrageous claim that they represent 99% of the American people against the greedy, oppressive, exploitative top 1% what they mean is this: whether the 99% know it or not, accept it or not, like it or not, want it or not they (the Fringers) are acting on behalf of their TRUE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INTERESTS. These arrogant, delusional, Marxist loons have the ultimate saving truth; they know what's good for us, what's right for us, what's best for us, what will work for us. Most working Americans are asleep, ignorant or brainwashed by regressive capitalist views, and just don't get it. They don't understand that the game is rigged against them, rigged to favor the super-rich, and that they can't succeed in the present system without massive government taxation, intervention and spending far beyond anything that's being presently done. Ultimately the system is unreformable and must be destroyed stone by stone, brick by brick. Only by revolutionary state control of the economy can the working man be truly free from the tyranny of greedy employers, landlords, and banking institutions.
The Fringers or Fringies* see themselves as leading America to the revolutionary future, to Obama's transformational "More Perfect Union," to egalitarian heaven. The Occupy Wall Street movement is the politics of leftist desperation to rescue their dying socialist agenda and save the Utopian Dream.
*Thanks Ken K and Mike. Mike wrote: "In the sixties we had the Hippies and Yippies. Now we have the Fringies."
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