What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[kandrathe]

What I am disputing, is whether Marxism is an evil ideology or not.

Overtly, no. It does not espouse gathering up dissenters and executing them. In practice, due to it's implementation and reliance on central planning, which centralizes unchecked power, that has been the result.

Power divided is a power that can be checked.

The corporations and politicians have far more power politically and economically than the masses.

An unproven claim. The people still retain the power to change the government, and boycott products if they like. They have remained somewhat docile while the economy has flourished, when people experienced pain, you see the emergence of the tea party(blame the government) and the occupy movement(blame the corporations).

... now that the minority has turned our Republic into an corporate oligarchy?

Our government structure and rights are mostly intact. The biggest blows to the republic came after the civil war, when a drastic shift of power went to the federal government from the states (infringing the 9th & 10th amendments). And, then again during the FDR years post depression and into the emergency of WWII. Since WWII, we've been addicted to war as an economic engine.

Certain SCOTUS rulings and actions by legislative and the executive branches have shifted power around -- but, all in all, there are still checks and balances. The largest threat to any nation is the internationalization of corporate power, banking, economy, and law. Back to keeping power divided. If I don't like how the Mormons run things in Utah, I can move to another state. If I don't like how things are run on the Earth, I don't have many choices.

Less government regulation? That can only work if the corporate tyranny is destroyed first.

Tyranny is only possible if we let it be. First, we need to give the government more power, through writing more laws and growing the size of government. A bigger government governs more and controls more of the GDP and controls more, and more of our lives. They have the physical power of the army, and the police. The clash in Oakland yesterday was between citizens and their local government, not with the corporations. It might be that the politicians are beholden to the corporations and do their bidding, but we still have the right to replace our politicians.

See, in socialism, it is democracy for the masses, and tyranny by government OR corporations is forbidden and prevented, as the means of production and property is shared by all.

That would be in Socialist Pollyanna world again?

And this may piss some people off, but I dont necessarily have the utmost respect for the founders as people. They were...

... normal for their time. Moral 20/20 hindsight. I don't have much in common with the morality of my viking ancestors and their blood lust religion and lifestyles, other than my DNA.