Why I Am Not A Protester

I am not a protester. I do not join protests. I do not pick up signs and walk picket lines. I do not chant slogans. Not because I don't agree with some of the positions espoused in picket lines, but because I think protesting primarily is intended to make protesters feel good about themselves.
I do not have a 'Spartacus complex.' I theorize the 'powers that be' encourage protest movements to get those who disagree with them in one place so they can subdue them. And then they crucify them and line the Appian Way with their crosses.
I do not have a 'Martyr complex.' I do not feel a need to be dead like Jesus or Gandhi. People die every day for causes they have been manipulated emotionally into believing are worth dying for.
Throughout human history one percent of the people have controlled everything. It has always been thus and always will be. No amount of chanting slogans, carrying signs and camping out is ever going to change that.
The rich and powerful do not care if you protest. They do not care if you call them names. They can not be shamed, because they have no shame. You cannot appeal to their better natures because they have no better natures. The people who run the world are cold-blooded, ruthless, soulless entities that are far more intelligent than we will ever be.
It is also clear that these powerful people rule through puppets (our elected officials) who are brain-dead stupid but do what they are told. The president of the U.S. or the Prime Minister of Britain is far more worried about what their masters will do to them if they don't obey than they are whether some peasants are carrying pitchforks.

Let's look at American history. This country was founded by spoiled rich kids who had no future in Europe because of certain hereditary laws (mainly primogenitor) and wanted to make a fortune overseas. Don't take my word for this. Do some research on the land grants given to these wealthy families in the colonies.
For example, a young George Washington got paid to survey the immense lands in Virginia granted to Lord Fairfax.
Because these spoiled rich kids didn't get their hands dirty, they needed cheap labor to accompany them to the colonies. Do you see where this is going? What started with indentured servants was bound to end in a system of slavery because the people in charge were primarily interested in cheap labor (think immigration policy today).
The Constitution, or Scripture for Rich People, institutionalized the money making machine for these spoiled rich kids (glamorized today as Founding Fathers, most of them were horse's arses). Which is why to this day, the toadies for the wealthy genuflect before the constitution and get all weepy.
To keep the peasants from storming the castles, a variety of methods have been employed. 'Divide and Conquer' works very well. So does 'Deflect and Distract.' When those methods fail, the legal system is used to snuff out discontent or rebellion.
The 'Occupy Wall Street' movement will not suceed. It will fail. Those who have power will not give up power. Those who have wealth will not share it. If leaders emerge form the movement, they will be co-opted. If they can not be bought, they will be eliminated.
The only change is going to come from those who have power. What makes FDR so astonishing and remarkable is that he came from the privileged class. He did not obey his masters. I do not know why. Maybe because of his experience with polio. For reasons we may never know, FDR promoted policies that showed concern for the welfare of those who were not descendents of the rich families who founded this country. Ever since FDR, the spoiled rich kids have been trying to overturn FDR's New Deal.
Another anamoly is LBJ's Great Society. LBJ was put in power by those who thought it necessary to nip JFK's policies in the bud. (what is it with these initials?) LBJ backfired on them. He gave the 'Masters of War' (Bob Dylan's words) the war profits they wanted, but his social policies were too-FDR like. LBJ had to go.

In comes Nixon, setting the stage for the genial puppet of the wealthy, B-movie actor Ronald Winston Reagan (or 6-6-6 as Bill Hicks pointed out). Like fellow actor Roddy McDowell, Reagan was most known for a movie that had a chimp in it. And with the genial 'aw-shucks' Ronny as lead puppet (check out the British puppet show Spitting Image), the assault on FDR's policies began in earnest. The attacks continued through the Bush/Clinton/Bush years.
My liberal friends who thought Obama would be another FDR or JFK have been profoundly disappointed. It matters not who the president is, any more than it mattered who the prime minister was in the Harry Potter books. The muggles are not in charge. Never have been, never will be.