The 1% has enormous wealth. They can hire the best talent

[Zorra]

to figure out how to implement tactics to discredit and/or subvert a non-violent democratic revolution such as the current OWS worldwide movement.

It is in their greedy, undemocratic best interests to do so. They will do whatever it takes to prevent effective democracy from being established in the US, and anywhere else as well. And they have more cash than the rest of us put together to do it with.

Do the math.

Please, don't buy into their propaganda.

Below is an essay written by Marcos during the Zapatista rebellion. I believe it will be of profound interest to most OWS supporters.

The global power of the financial centers is so great, that they can afford not to worry about the political tendency of those who hold power in a nation, if the economic program (in other words, the role that nation has in the global economic megaprogram) remains unaltered. The financial disciplines impose themselves upon the different colors of the world political spectrum in regards to the government of any nation. The great world power can tolerate a leftist government in any part of the world, as long as the government does not take measures that go against the needs of the world financial centers. But in no way will it tolerate that an alternative economic, political and social organization consolidate. For the megapolitics, the national politics are dwarfed and submit to the dictates of the financial centers. It will be this way until the dwarfs rebel.
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The apparent infallibility of globalization clashes with the stubborn disobedience to reality. At the same time as neoliberalism carries out its world war, all over the world groups of those who will not conform take shape, nuclei of rebels. The empire of financial pockets confront the rebellion of the pockets of resistance.

Yes, pockets. Of all sizes, of all colors, of the most varied forms. Their only similarity is their resistance to the "new world order" and the crime against humanity that the neoliberal war carries out.

Upon its attempt to impose its economic, political, social and cultural model, neoliberalism pretends to subjugate millions of human beings, and do away with all those who do not have a place in its new distribution of the world. But as it turns out these "disposible" ones rebel and they resist against the power who wants to eliminate them. Women, children, the elderly, the indigenous, the ecologists, homosexuals,lesbians, HIV positives, workers and all those men and women who are not only "left over" but who"bother" the established order and world progress rebel, and organize and struggle. Knowing they are equal yet different, the excluded ones from "modernity" begin to weave their resistance against the process of destruction/depopulation and reconstruction/reorganization which is carried out as a world war, by neoliberalism.

http://struggle.ws/mexico/ezln/1997/jigsaw.html

Peace and Solidarity

[Vincardog]

1. Makes you wonder why the have the clown car primary in the GOP. Maybe they have their man already

[CoffeeCat]

2. The corporations--not the political parties--

...decide who will be the next president.

And absolutely--they have their man all ready.

The GOP is even trying. And they've got some of the worst batshit-crazy elements running on their side. They
aren't even serious.

You nailed it. The corporatocracy is fine with the status quo.

[Vincardog]

3. That brings up the question: Why should I vote for him?

[sam11111]

4. "neoliberalism" - a term that makes most americans think Marcos is flogging the LW

And thus he must be favoring the RW

Better term for neoliberalism?

[Vincardog]

5. Better term for neoliberalism? = Fascism

[sam11111]

6. is neolib roughly equal to trickledown or supplyside?

[Vincardog]

7. NoeLib is the side that believes NAFTA CAFTA and every flat earth "free trade" deal is good as long

as it drives American wages down to the point we can compete on a cost basis with Chinese prison labor, without the daily meals and health care.
The are the supply siders.
They are the .01% who believe that because they had psychopathic progenitors who left they imaginable wealth
they are "Masters of the Universe" and the rest of us exist only to benefit them.

[Zorra]

9. Neoliberalism in this context is used to designate

an ideology that emphasizes that the rights of corporations to trade and profit freely on a global scale takes precedence over the democratic and human rights of individuals as well as the laws and governments of any sovereign national state.

In other words, neoliberalism is the belief that it is the supreme right of wealthy private interests to make profits anywhere and everywhere at any time is the supreme law of the planet, and to do whatever they deem necessary to enforce this "right".

[olleander]

8. neoliberals

Neoliberals and neoconservatives agree on most things
economic.  They are both funded by Wall Street.  They both
give the same advice to Presidents when it comes to national
sovereignty.  Bill Clinton and George Bush and Barak Obama
worship at the same altar when it comes to finance and trade. 

[Zorra]

10. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[EC]

11. It seems perverse to have a company or

an individual family to have more money than the government. It has always led to the rape of the country, creating 3rd World existance for the citizens and luxury for the lords.

[sam11111]

12. so a better term in the US for talking to the public

Might be "anti-tarrifers"

Which means freetraders but without the positive feel that "free" gives that term

How about "tarrif killers"?

Any other ideas?

Neolib is so confusing to joe voter here we should toss it ... Use only in grad seminar classrooms ... IMO.

Other americans here agree?