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Lincoln called predatory money power "more despotic than a monarch, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than a bureaucracy....I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at the rear is my greatest foe."
The 1913 Federal Reserve Act giving Wall Street money power was America's most destructive ever legislation. For nearly a century, it extracted a huge toll, amounting to permanent debt bondage by transferring national wealth to private hands.
John Adams once said, "There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt."
Former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941) said, "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can't have both."
Of course, America never had democracy. It has representative rule by political officials serving wealth and power interests only. More concentrated now than ever, ordinary people are entirely shut out.
Finally growing numbers said no more. Rallying impressively, it remains to be seen where this goes.
Will activists avoid being co-opted by political power brokers, corrupted labor bosses, and billionaires like George Soros wanting nothing interfering with how they operate?
Will their energy be sustained or will it wane, especially when northern cities get cold? Will numbers grow exponentially or diminish? Will achieving social justice matter enough to sustain enough spirit to fight for it and not quit?
Staying the course isn't easy. Victories never come easily or quickly. So far street activism is impressive. Hopefully it's got legs. Follow-up articles will report on if so.
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