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Everybody seems to have an agenda item for the Occupation movement.
Election reform.
End corporate personhood.
Ban the GOP.
Ban greed (good luck).
Whatever. From the inspired and sublime and wonderful to the puckish and peculiar, everybody has a suggestion or an idea on how to "harness the power" of the movement.
Well, me too.
Here's my suggestion: Just KEEP GOING.
Keep getting bigger.
Keep occupying more cities.
Keep communicating.
Keep creating cool signs and getting pictures of them on Facebook and Twitter.
Keep irritating the "mainstream media."
Keep making GOPpie pols and flacks froth at the mouth and sound like Agnew reincarnations.
Keep smiling.
Keep singing.
Stay in the streets.
Stay solid.
Get bigger. Be more of what you are.
Be the 99%.
In other words: Scare the shit out of our Beloved Oligarchs.
Because that is the best thing we can do.
When they get scared enough, they'll start to crumble. They'll start to take action. They'll lose their solidarity. Here's how it will play out:
They'll keep asking what we want. We'll keep telling them and they'll keep not getting it, because they're too scared to admit they know what we want but they don't want to give it to us.
They'll try to demonize us. They'll try to fight us. They'll try to convince their rapidly-diminishing cadre of helots that we're the enemy, not them.
They'll try to provoke violence. It will succeed, sporadically, in a few places. But it won't succeed well, and it will backfire on them. (SEE: National Air and Space Museum/American Spectator)
Then a couple of them will bolt. They will figure that they can reinvent themselves as part of us and protect their assets and/or minimize their losses. One or two "mainstream" media outlets will begin to pretend to be on our side.
They will be followed by a range of former helots of the Oligarchs who will jump on our bandwagon and start trying to control the movement for their own benefit. In the process, they will start to do things designed to convince us of their sincerity.
We will begin to see small victories. We will begin to see changes. The crack in the dam will widen.
The flood will begin.
We need do nothing, except stay in the streets. Stay cheerful. Stay peaceful. Stay determined. Stay articulate and solid and focused.
We don't need to "focus" on this or that demand or agenda suggested by any of us. We just need to keep being ALL OF US.
That's all it will take.
hopefully, Bright
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