I have been listening to the local radio in Los Angeles for the past few days and the daily rants against the Occupy Wall Street movement. The comments coming I am hearing are shocking to say the least. The meme that there is no coherent demands, there is no message, etc. is what most of the people I heard on one of the largest talk stations I listen to can't seem to stop hitting on.
And for me, there is just one issue on the occupation, one issue that relates to everything and that's the money.
It's all about money, who has been using political power and wealth to accumulate and widen the wealth gap between the haves and have nots. Money.
It's the money in politics, money in the news room and the money in the stock market, it's about the top 3% or more importantly, the top 1%. It's taxes that aren't being paid, about the bottom line coming before progress (green energy, health care for all, environmental issues, you name it!).
It's about money.
Everything else is a symptom of this redistribution of wealth from the bottom up over the last three decades. People are angry, they are tired of their voice not being heard and the last three years has merely galvanized that anger.
We've had three years of a new President and gridlock because of people who do not want change because it will mean they will lose the ground they've taken in the last decades.
But things have to change. It's not difficult.
And why it seems so complicated is because there are so many symptoms of this great inequality and the system that's broken and has been broken for so long.
So what's so hard about that?
The media wants it to be complicated, incoherent and ineffective because it goes along with the narrative that this movement is not to be taken seriously.
It threatens the bottom line and their profit margins.
Don't let them lead the narrative. Make people understand that this is about too much money in politics and the media and that this with the every growing income inequality means that it will be harder and harder for our children to live in an America where people can expect to make a better life than their parents had.
It's that simple.