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people. To be clear, we’re not against wealthy people; just because you
have wealth doesn't make you a tyrant. It's the people who crashed the
economy and use their money to rig the political system, to rig the legal
system, to rig the market, to rig the rules against hardworking Americans.
It's all the corrupt crony-capitalists we are calling out. In fact, we don’t
blame any single person. It is a systemic problem. It’s our archaic and
incredibly outdated system, a system that’s increasingly vulnerable to, and
easily rigged by, the forces of shortsighted greed.
We know many people within the economic top one percentile who
are using their wealth and resources to improve the human condition in
many different ways. We wish more wealthy people would put their
money where their mouth is. We’re sure they will soon enough, in the
interests of preservation, but just having wealth in no way makes you a
tyrant. Again, when you break it down, it is really only one-hundredth of
one percent of the population that is doing the damage. And ultimately, it
is the political system and mainstream media that allows them to get away
with it, that deceives, dumbs down and mentally conditions the population
to the point where the overwhelming majority remains unaware of their
own power and potential in an incredibly wealthy and technologically
advanced society.
Even more shocking than the $46 trillion and the 400 Americans who
have as much wealth as 185 million Americans combined, is the fact that a
mere 147 tightly knit companies control 40 percent of the global economy.
This is obviously a highly unstable, unsustainable and unhealthy situation.
To paraphrase from several quotes by philosopher and social
psychologist John Dewey:
‘There is no such thing as the liberty or effective power of an
individual, group or class, except in relation to the liberties and effective
powers of other individuals, groups or classes.
Liberty signifies release from the impact of particular oppressive
forces, emancipation from something once taken as a normal part of
human life, but now experienced as bondage. Today, it signifies liberation
from the coercions and repressions that prevent people from participation
in the vast wealth that is presently at hand.