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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (217840)	10/4/2011 7:26:40 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 361609

Here's a very emotional rant by a young protester at OWS that was uploaded today: Fiat Money (VIDEO) There is nowhere left to run. If we lose America, we lose the world to the elite. The 1% will continue to get rich as we all live like slaves. If you think the way of life is bad now, you will all be living in projects like Hooverville's. == Ah, To Be Young And In Hate: America's New Radicals Attack a System That Ignores Them Ted Rall Social Justice and Activism by Ted Rall \| October 4, 2011 - 9:11am "Enraged young people," The New York Times worries aloud, are kicking off the dust of phony democracy, in which "the job of a citizen was limited to occasional trips to the polling places to vote" while decision-making remains in the claws of a rarified elite of overpaid corporate executives and their corrupt pet politicians. "From South Asia to the heartland of Europe and now even to Wall Street," the paper continues, "these protesters share something else: wariness, even contempt, toward traditional politicians and the democratic political process they preside over. They are taking to the streets, in part, because they have little faith in the ballot box." The rage of the young is real. It is justified. It is just beginning to play out. The political class thinks it can ignore the people it purports to represent. They're right-but not forever. A reckoning is at hand. Forty years of elections without politics will cost them. Americans' pent-up demand for a forum to express their disgust is so vast that they are embracing slapdash movements like Occupy Wall Street, which reverses the traditional tactic of organizing for a demonstration. People are protesting first, then organizing, then coming up with demands. They have no other choice. With no organized Left in the U.S., disaffected people are being forced to build resistance from the ground up. Who can blame young