"Revoke Corporate Personhood? I don't know what that means."

So yeah, just like I said in that earlier post, the media is mocking the occupation of Wall Street. But I wasn't entirely right about that. They're mostly ignoring it. Which is better than openly mocking it I guess, at least the American public isn't being told what to think. I've noticed they're picking up on it a little bit, but most of it has been small tidbits and a lot of confusion, which isn't any different from how they normally act.

Here's some dumbshits on Fox forming opinions about things they don't understand.

But the worst part? How they say how they're inspired by the Arab Spring protests. Let's remember, people were killed in Egypt and Syria and Yemen, for something. Mentioning your little picnic in the same breath, relating it to the risks those people took should embarrass these twerps and their parents. But I imagine they're probably embarrassed enough already."

...says the Tea Partier, who draws inspiration for his own racism and homophobia "political movement" from a group of liberal revolutionaries who sparked a war to overthrow the English government.

But we have to be honest with ourselves too. I would love nothing more than to see something similar to the Arab Spring happen in the United States, but this isn't even close to it. I saw PoliticusUSA estimate that the crowd is around 50,000, but they're just as biased as alternet, so that's probably bullshit. People in the occupywallstreet reddit have been begging for more people, and most legitimate estimates I've seen put it at around 2,000 at most.

This is going to be cheesy as hell, but I'm putting it here because I think it fits. Here's a quote from The Matrix.

The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

Doesn't that hit you right in the gut? Americans just can't organize a liberal nationwide movement similar to the Arab Spring, for one simple reason: the country is fucking brainwashed. I'm not even trying to exaggerate, when I say "brainwashed," that's exactly what I mean. Even the "liberals" are making fun of this, assuming they know about it at all. The corporate media controls the information that Americans are exposed to, and they answer to Wall Street. You're damn right they're going to ignore this.

This is a battle for minds. Protests, from all political spectrums, are nothing but circlejerks. People from across the aisle are always going to throw shit at your protest, because they don't understand it. That dumbass on Fox said, word for word, "Revoke Corporate Personhood? I don't know what that means." I mean, there are just no words for this level of superficiality. Americans aren't even aware that corporations are legally able to buy politicians and run our government. No fucking wonder they're going to make fun of this. They don't even know what this is, or why they're fighting.

I think the reason why OccupyWallStreet is going to die off and fail is because it prided itself with being leaderless, and having no one established goal. In retrospect, it appears like that method kills the protest before it even starts. Nobody knows why they're there. And it doesn't help that all the major liberal voices are ignoring this too. I haven't seen Michael Moore or Olbermann or Maddow say anything about this at all. Democracy Now has made a few tweets about it and I'm sure they'll cover it Monday, but nobody watches them, and if the major players don't mention it in their shows tomorrow, I don't see how this can go anywhere from here.