Another Kentucky voice worth hearing.

[alfredo]

Well, reading in this case.

http://www.kentucky.com/2011/11/04/1946478/citizens-trust-in-government-eroding.html

What the Washington political establishment fails to see, or is afraid to admit, is that the OWS movement is part of a crisis of legitimacy. We're talking here about political legitimacy, a kind of faith without which a society is unstable.

The great social theorist Max Weber famously said that for a government to be legitimate, citizens must have a certain kind of faith: "The basis of every system of authority, and correspondingly of every kind of willingness to obey, is a belief, a belief by virtue of which persons exercising authority are lent prestige."

[PETRUS]

1. K&R

[alfredo]

2. We are hearing more "main stream" people speaking out.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. A crisis of legitimacy indeed

People around the world yearn for a new, progressive approach to the organization of society. The old models never worked, and the world is beginning to realize it.

[alfredo]

4. They need to understand that capitalism and democracy

are at odds. They need to decide between democracy and the tyranny of the capitalist.