There are two possible avenues of redress that I can think of.
The most effective would be focused, mass non-violent revolution. Mass general strike, don't buy anything, don't pay anything. We can't defeat them with violence, or through the political system that they control.
The best way to force greedy people to negotiate is to take away what they love most in the world: Money, power (control), and toys. If we simply stay home and don't operate their system for them, they can't arrest us, can't beat us up, can't kill us. It's kind of economic guerrilla warfare.The reason they were able to violently crush Occupy is that we were in the parks and streets, so they could tell us that exercising our freedom of expression was illegal, and therefore, they could beat us, pepper spray us, and lock us up.
If enough of us are all just sitting in our homes for a week, not participating in their game, what are they going to do? The only thing they can do is call a Waaambulance, or negotiate with the 99%.
In the meantime, they're losing billions and billions of dollars a day, their entire system is fucked. It will take a lot of personal sacrifice by the 99%, and we would need to plan ahead to remain comfortable during the non-action.
What it boils down to, are we willing to accept that our liberty and democracy is over forever, for the sake of temporary safety and security? Or are we going to take action that may be uncomfortable in order to secure a satisfactory future for ourselves and future generations?
The other possibility is to elect leaders who are not under the control of the 1%, who will act to establish real democracy and will dedicate their efforts solely to promoting the well bein of the 1%. But this isn't ever going to happen, the PTB won't ever let it happen, and they have all the power in the world to ensure that it never happens.
So...the only solution is world revolution.
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