Introduction
17th Sep. 2011, a usual workday, but not in New York, where thousands of people gathered in the center of Manhattan city for one aim: Occupy the Wallstreet. Unlike previous demonstrations where in the world, protesters joining this movement are spontaneously organized though Internet, get together to show their strong dissatisfactions towards American social conditions, including money-power deal, social injustice, and political maneuver. Demonstrators claim that government only regard the benefits of the wealthiest 1%, while leave the 99% ordinary people out in cold. Within days, the movement began to gain momentum, by 17th Oct, the protest have affected many major US cities including Washington, and with an increasingly lager scale than ever before. The movement signals American people’s strong dissatisfaction towards the marriage between the money and power, and further exposed an artificial nature of the American democracy.
The leakage between money and power is a permanent theme of capitalism. In American, money has been said breast-feeding the politics, serves as an in indispensible lubricant that oils the mechanisms of the American political system, exerts incomparable impact on political elections and decision-making process. Without the back of money, politicians are impossible to get power; however excellent they may be. Take the 2008 presidential election as an example, Obama himself only have spend a record high amount of 75000000 dollar. While most of those money is funded by finical groups, ordinary people merely onlookers. Thus, it naturally follows that politicians would benefits their benefactors after they take oath into office by making policies favorable to them.
As protestor claimed, in America, only 1% the well-to-do people served by government, and controls almost 40% wealth. The increasing winding gap between the rich and the poor is one of the main reasons contributes to Occupy Wallstreet movement. What the movement would finally become is still uncertain, but one thing for sure is that it would turn out to be a touch stone for public opinion.