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In reply to the discussion: So anything OWS does is right and everything police do is wrong [View all]TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)Society breaks down when the economic system does not allow the movement of resources and abject poverty is created.
400 people have more resources than the bottom 150 MILLION (give or take). The top 1% as a whole dominates further and top 20% (which by most indication includes much of DU's membership) has a substantial resource advantage to the 80%.
When combined with money equalling speech in this country the political balance goes completely out of whack and the politics are skewed to protect those interests and the bottom 80% are further plundered because the pie is only so big and the demands of avarice are unending.
Pooh pooing this situation is truly a "you can't be serious" moment, going on as we have is not tenable and the systemic entropy a far greater threat to individual freedom and broad prosperity than even the poison of Jim Crow and it isn't even close though much more closely related than will ever be admitted. Minorities will continue to take the biggest hits and have the least chance for anything like upward mobility.