It appears that we have a highly unusual situation in this country.  We have two large groups of people who are completely dissillusioned with the current state of our country, namely those that identify with the occupy wall street movement and those that identify with the tea party.  This however is not what I find unusual.  What I find most unusual is that these two populist movements routinely villify each other while failing to find any common ground or to learn from each other.  This is the mechanism that the corporate occupational government (a term I coined in 2006 while in prison) will use to confuse us and send us scurrying back into the folds of our two party system, thus maintaining their stranglehold on power.  I do not claim to know where this common ground can be found per se, but I believe it is possible.  For one thing,  most will agree that the bail out of the banks was ill advised and reprehensible.  Most of us will also agree that our current electoral system is too beholden to special interests and their lobbyists.  Also many are coming to realize the inherent dangers of the federal reserve and its system of fiat currency and fractional reserve banking that robs us of the value of our dollars and only benefits corporate interests.  Want to really scare the establishment?  FIND COMMON GROUND!!!

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Comment by Gail on November 16, 2011 at 7:23am

The place where Tea Partiers and Occupiers meet is at the Constitution.

Most people do not know that We lost our Constitutional Republic in 1816, as a result of a bloodless coup d'etat.  This verifiable, documentary evidence is now available for all to read, but if your government-sponsored educations make no reference to this injustice, how can we fix the problem when no one knows where it is broken.

When a water main breaks, we fix the problem at the point of injury.  when government hides the point of injury from us, we treat symptoms - and part of the symptoms is the establishment of a system that divides us rather than unites us.

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