We can't help ourselves. My husband and I are working people. We love this country and know it is in trouble - we just can't stand around and listen to the partisan rhetoric coming out of Washington any longer. Occupy has invited us to take political action in our own lives and we are. We invite you to do the same in your corner of the world. We don't sleep at the camps and nobody at Occupy knows us by name...but there is so much you can do to support these passionate people who are standing up for all of us, without sleeping at a camp or getting arrested.
It all comes down to this - I'm repeating it from my last post because the media is failing so miserably at breaking this down:
Corporate and money influences have corrupted our politicians and determine what they are, or are not, willing to do for us. They don't listen to the 99% (conservatives or liberals), they follow whoever gives them their money for election/re-election.
This is not what the founding fathers had in mind for the country!
Who can't grasp this basic thought and understand why we have a movement fighting this absurdity in Washington?
It is so disappointing to me that the mainstream news can't keep their eye on the ball. They should be helping to bring the overall message of the movement to the masses and then further hammer it home to Washington on behalf of the American public...but they aren't. They should put partisanship aside and bring Americans together - but they don't. Because that wouldn't get them advertising dollars, it isn't inflammatory enough - and America continues to suffer.
Don't be afraid of what the Occupy Movement is about. They are attempting to realign Washington with the individual - not the money/corporation. It is a simple idea and every middle class American who doesn't "own" a politician should support it – it's a no brainer!
Whether you are liberal or conservative no longer matters. What matters is that Washington is too involved with corporate money and influence to listen to us - the individuals across America. That's why we must all join together. We can't let partisans pit us against each other. Left or right - everyone across the middle spectrum does have a common goal - we need our government to respond to us!
This is why you must support the Occupy Movement from out here in mainstream America. You can write emails - you can make phone calls - you can send tweets. When you see something happening you don't like - make a call and when you see something you do like - send an email. If you can make it to a march or rally, great, but if not, that's ok too - just take one small action.
Our government must balance the needs of the people against the money making machines called corporations and their lobbyists - they are currently failing miserably. These corporations are showing record profits. They have been rewarded for hurting the country and the average American, and no substantial regulations have been reinstated by Washington - to me, it is criminal how our governing body is behaving.
Who do you think is going to fight this battle for the 99%?
Do you think Washington or the mainstream media are going to do it?
Who beyond Occupy is taking any true, dramatic action?
We all know the answer...
This is why I can't and won't stop Occupying.
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