The problem Natalie is that the libertarians/tea baggers would destroy the only modality through which citizens can exert their will and do something about the mess...
 
The corporations aren't going to do it obviously, so who/what else other than a responsive and responsible government can act as a means for citizens to exert their power in a democracy.
 
Citizens need a structure to work through to exercise their power. To destroy government and sanctify corporate structures is to fall for the shell game that the Wall Street mob and their cronies are trying fob off as a political/economic theory.
 
The fact that the existing structures are corrupted means that the task of making them suitable for exercising this will is rather more difficult and long term but as Maggie Thatcher would say TINA.
 
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You can increase your effectiveness Nicholas-by encouraging capitalists who are against criminal crony behavior to join in against the fraud and lies of the common enemy-Wall Street Do that by helping to make peace out there and not drive away the libertarians & moderate tea baggers/populists. The media (paid for by Wall Street) is using this protest to divide & destroy
 
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there is plenty of nihilist Leftist critique out there also
 
especially from the dinosaur vertical Marxists who have a big problem with the anarchic inspired bottom up processes common to these anti-capialist/alter-globalization movements
 
in Europe there is a lot more big tent solidarity then on display in the US...
 
too many old Marxists, who should just shut up and send food parcels, instead whinge about discipline and have created a mini industry critiquing the publications of the movements
 
the old, crusty, seedy Marxists, always say, "There is No Left in the USA". Now its obviously not true, they say "There is no Real, Rigorous, Dialectically Sophisticated, Disciplined Left in the USA"
 

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can I just make a general swing at the keyboard intellectuals. 
 
get of your arses and get down the places where people are gathering and get involved in the process
 
its real easy to sit at home and read the amatuer, naive, often foolish media that comes out of these media events and spectacles
 
even easier to type-up scathing nihilist critiques about the failure of the Left, the faults of the young, the weakness of the institutions etc etc etc etc etc
 
there is plenty of material, and its been done, too much
 
now is a time, to actually do something, and its time to be an organic intellectual and participate in the messy, smelly, noisy, uncomfortable realities of these kinds of democratic actions
 
soon enough it will dissipate, and you can go back to eating the shit sandwhich of Amercian life
 
but today, and for the next few days, there is something happening worth participating in
 
take your intellect, your knowledge, your experience and GO HELP
 

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