All this talk and even the perpetrator doesn't see the meaning! We have always known that the meme about 99% has a flaw. We speak of it all the time. "People who vote against their best interest". That is more real than most of our political rhetoric! They will vote and they are our biggest problem as far as any chance of real change coming about. When we win they will be against us and support the plutocrats who rule us. These last two years if not the last four should have made that clear, The system is stable and we will stabilize it further no matter what the outcome of this election. You mock and criticize the other side but you also collude with them. You give them legitimacy by participating in the election. They are simply the "other side"! No folks they are a part of us who have been manipulated into believing that what we want will hurt them in some way. If there is any kind of validity to the 99% meme then we are blowing it. Read on below and I'll try to explain.
As a 76 year old scientist/political activist I have to admit that as involved as I get emotionally in all this I also have cultivated an ability to step out of the current context and try to see what is going on as a Martian might.
The first huge contradiction lies in the accuracy of Mitt's 47% divisive meme and the failure of almost anyone to get it. It is a huge portrait of where we really are. Poor Mitt can't even see that clearly but by some instinct he has found it. Fortunately, no one else has yet. The fundamental question we face is the division among the so called "99%". So many have tried to fathom this. George Lakoff has books trying to explain it. Yet no one of our brightest minds has an answer.
So we go on trying to convince the other part of our 99% that we are all together in this. Are we? If so are they mentally ill? Why don't they see it? We are winning it seems. We should be if we are indeed 99%!
Something very important is missing here. Maybe someone can tell me what it is?