We fight for another half century until these things sort of sort themselves out, or we destroy ourselves. So I see this happening, what you ' re talking about, happening, but much like the French Revolution I see it being, not aborted, but I see it being a very painful process, and frankly I see a lot of blood being shed, as the bottom challenges the top. And I'm not just talking about Occupy Wall Street. I'm talking about much more serious efforts than Occupy Wall Street, which, at root, was inchoate, in coherent, and more or less ( as far as I can tell) has sort of fizzled out. There will be a time, and it will come overnight, I think, where the majority of the world, if not the majority of this country, wakes up one morning and says "It's finished!" And the leadership will be there. The leadership will be politically opportunistic. It may be motivated by genuine altruistic reasons, or it may be just pure power that they're after, but the leadership will be there, just as it was there for the French Revolution. Robespierre after all, didn't just materialize out of thin air. And Napoleon didn't materialize out of thin air either. So we're going to go through a period, I think, of very near anarchy and chaos, as all of this sorts itself out, and as we again move into a different dimension of democracy, because I think that's still going to be the dominant political force, and as that democracy becomes more democratic.
Rob Kall: So, okay. Let me just take this back " you said, there will be a time, and it will come overnight, and the majority of the world will be there when they will say " it's finished ! '
Lawrence Wilkerson:
"I was in London for example, when the first " I guess it was about a quarter of a million, building to almost a million people took to the streets protesting the Iraq war. And I was stunned. You couldn't move. The only other time I've been in London when it was that bad was the Fireworks Display on New Year's Eve, when my wife and I were down in the Thames River and even the B obbies on horseback couldn't move. The horses couldn't move, because they were immobilized by the mass of people around them. That's the kind of phenomenon I'm talking about. When we suddenly wake up one morning and find out, essentially, that the middle class on down is frankly fed up. And they've figured out intuitively or intellectually, that the Oligarchy, that the corporate powers that run this country, for example, are not conducive to their interests. [laughing] And they wake up ! Right now you've got " I find this phenomenon absolutely " it's just unbelievable to see when you go to some place like Southern Ohio, or Southern Pennsylvania, or out West where I just was, in Eastern Washington State, in Northern Idaho, and you find people who say things like " I'm going to vote for Mitt Romney, because Mitt Romney is going to restore this economy. ' And you look at them and you say " How? ' And they can't tell you how, because they can't tell you what's wrong with this economy. They can't even tell you that, for example, our gross domestic product used to be seventy five percent [75%] manufacturing and maybe twelve percent [12%] services, and that our gross domestic product today is seventy-eight percent [ 78%] services and less than eleven percent [ 11%] manufacturing. And they can't grasp that, what we've done to this country, what the corporate leadership of this country has done to us. It's not just exporting jobs to China. It's rape, pillaging, and plundering the country, largely the middle class, and the banks have been their conduits for doing so. And the banks are largely responsible for storing these trillions of dollars of taxpayers' money. They don't understand! But one day they will. One day they will. And when they do, Katie, bar the door !
Rob Kall: What you're saying reminds me of conversations I've had with what happened in Argentina, where it was when the leadership there shut the banks for the middle class, and hundreds of thousands went out on the streets. Where in Venezuela, where they raised the price of gas, after it had long been really expensive prices, and they were flooded with gas in the waters off their shores. It's when, it's almost like what happens is, when the government makes a mistake, and finally there's a viral recognition and realization that the middle class is being screwed, and the people just explode into the streets.
Lawrence Wilkerson:
There's a..
Rob Kall: Do you think that can happen?
Lawrence Wilkerson:
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