Before too many people get all up in arms over the title, let me just say that I stand in solidarity with the Occupy demonstrators, and cannot even begin to express my gratitude for what they have already accomplished—namely to affirm what many of us have been feeling for a long time, and get people talking about it—that too much of our nation’s wealth has become concentrated in the hands of too few, and special interests have gained too much influence over our government, making it so our economic and political systems do not function to serve the vast majority of Americans.
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