Unlike Kevin Parcell's "moderated " (i.e. censored) blog "A suggestion for your consideration", I offer a free and open discussion platform to explore whether there is, in fact, a common voice on specific issues among the American people or whether, as Parcell claims, there are just too many differing visions and goals to even attempt to consider a unified stance - other than simply listening to each other's voices (something which Kevin is unwilling to do unless they either agree with him or disagree without upsetting him).

To start us off, here is what Kevin (who won't allow me to comment on his blog) stated:

And so, while the assertion of #Occupy that 99% of people support change has resonance, in fact almost as many people whom support change disagree over any particular action other than to return power to the people by simply reclaiming their own voice in democratic government...Consequently, if #Occupy now focuses on putting forward any specific demand other than being heard, or focuses on defining a direction other than genuinely representative democracy, then it will likely destroy itself.

Of course, "simply reclaiming their own voice in democratic government" is a vacuous desire and "genuinely representative democracy" is a meaningless concept unless it includes 1) an analysis of why our voices are not heard, and 2) one or more proposals to correct that.

Much of the analysis is already broadly understood and accepted among, not only #OWS participants, but among the broader American people.

- The corporate and financial elites have too much money, power and influence over

- a government which has long since failed to represent the interests of We the People and that

- excessive wealth and power is due to the systemic inequities of a debt-based capitalist economy because

- corporate entities with no allegiance to people or place or even nation are granted more rights and privileges than living, breathing people by

- legislatures and courts which are not accountable - as the Constitution demands - to We the People.

Not only are the solutions largely understood and agreed upon by - not only #OWS participants, but the American people at large - but there are already a number of national, regional, state and local organizations and campaigns working to implement them, in part because of the energy and momentum generated by the #OWS revolt.

Perhaps the most broad consensus among We the People in America is that, at the root of many if not most of the critical problems we face today, is the fiction of Corporate Personhood.

A nationwide poll of US voters conducted by Hart Research Associates at the start of 2011 indicated that - in spite of the alleged ideological divide that has resulted in Washington deadlock - 82% believe that corporations care more about profits than people, 77% believe that corporations have too much influence on our nation's politics, and 79% would support a constitutional amendment banning Corporate Personhood (including 87% of Democrats, 82% of Independents, and 68% of Republicans).

This demonstrates that Americans overwhelmingly get it and are willing to undertake the process of adding a 28th amendment to the US Constitution of We the People to reclaim our democracy. There is no question about what the Voice of the 99% is saying (or, at least the overwhelming majority of that 99%), and it is not taking a position on such a fundamental paradigm-shifting program that would destroy #OWS - it's NOT listening to and taking the lead from the Voice of We the People that will render this fledgling movement a footnote in history.

Kevin's prescription for pretending to listen to the people's voice (while censoring certain voices he doesn't want to hear) is not how successful movements are built. Leadership (an essential ingredient of any movement, whether concentrated or dispersed) requires being willing to hear the Voice that has already spoken and find a way to harness the energy and manifest the vision.