Egypt young people can teach our (US) young people a few lessons. Maybe if the US young people PEACEFULLY demonstrate, maybe then someone would start speaking for us. May be then we ge an effective democracy?
Friend of mine who mine who has been following the events in Egypt over the last few weeks wondered if the young people in the US can organically organize and get the powers that be to listen to the voice of the people and to serve to further the interests of the majority of citizens rather than the interests of the less than 1% that control most of the wealth and collect most of the income. The artificial rent collected by the management class, far exceeds the talents and productivity of the members of that class. But artificial rent gets eroded by market forces only if market forces are unshackled, allowed to operate. Management market monopolies will keep market forces out. Ownership of capital is extremely dispersed, so capitalist join workers in being the object of EXPLOITATION.
You need to start at colonial times (See: With Liberty for some, by Scott Christianson, Northeastern University Press, Boston , 1998) to see the genesis of fragmentation and compliance. No one wishes to lose their livelihood by becoming known as a trouble maker. 87% of the American people have their wages as their only source of income. Yet the political class wants us to believe that we are all capitalists meaning we have returns on finance capital (which they say we own and control). Don’t we wish?
The revolution in Egypt is a facebook/twitter revolution .. an American import. Can we follow them? The US young people got Obama elected, so they know how to do it. I call for an independent movement to be Called: The Tom Jefferson Movement which would be peaceful and gentle but persistent. No one rests until politicians start working for us. We need free Education that takes us as far as we are able to go. We need basic health care at prices we can afford. We need to be able to enjoy the fruits of our labor so we don’t have to work hard all our lives and then die. We need time to think about our political choices so we don’t vote for something because we are to tired to find the truth. We need to save capitalism from capitalists. That is some of what the US youth can learn from the Youth of Egypt.