The Occupation movement is not about redistribution of wealth; it is about a permanent redistribution of power from corporations and government back to the People.

Let me be perfectly clear, the United States of America is a great nation, and anyone who denies this is no friend of the American people. However, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the nation has been led astray by the greed of corporations and of self-serving politicians. We are awakening to the reality that certain corporate entities and certain politicians have conspired to usurp control of this nation from the People. The People have been deceived, but we cannot allow the borderline treasonous actions of a handful of very powerful individuals to corrupt the ideals upon which this nation was founded.

Our politicians have revealed themselves to be incapable of performing their duty in the interests of the People; therefore, it is the duty of the People to take action, in order to protect those ideals for which our forefathers risked their lives. We have arrived at a critical point in our nation’s history, and we must each ask ourselves whether we want the illusion of freedom or the real thing.

If we desire true freedom, we must act quickly, but we must first understand the strategic position at which we now find ourselves. Obviously, we have aligned ourselves against the interests of corporations, which means we have also aligned ourselves against the majority of politicians. We have no political recourse in the current environment for two reasons:

* The Occupy movement is not a culturally, economically or politically cohesive group of voters, which means politicians have no need to integrate the demands of the Occupy movement into their campaigns. The 99% is a demographic scattershot of Americans. Therefore, neither Republican nor Democratic politicians will lose an election due to their refusal to acknowledge the issue.

* Politicians understand that campaigning is impossible without corporate funding. They will not sacrifice their career goals for the demands of the people.

We understand these things, which is why the movement has supported a Constitutional Convention. However, we cannot rely solely on this outcome, nor should we be so naive as to believe such an outcome would solve the problems facing our nation, to do so would be a tremendous waste of the movement’s momentum and the possibilities that it has created for us.

We currently have the means and resources to launch a campaign to create a new political party that more accurately represents the desires of voters (I recently outlined what such a party could look like in ‘A Sincere Proposal’). We must remember that if we fail in our efforts to force a Constitutional Convention, and we do not have a ‘Plan B’, we may not be able to recapture the momentum the movement currently has.

The Occupation movement is not about the redistribution of wealth, as some fear-mongering media outlets would have us believe; it is not solely about the demands which we have made; it is about a permanent redistribution of power from corporations and government back to the people. This is what we are really demanding. As long as our political system does not allow for a viable third party, our politicians will continue to act in their own interests.