The protesters are young, naive, idealistic, have no real world experience, and have been infiltrated and are being used. They confuse free enterprise with crony capitalism. They have been fed the causes of our current state as solutions.
Here we see the classic marxist ploy; infiltrate those with valid grievances.
We have been betrayed by the political elite of both parties.
The enemy within has been very successful in creating a story for the ‘left’ about economic, social, and environmental ‘justice’ and a story for the ‘right’ about ‘free trade’, 'comparative advantage', and 'profits uber alles' with no reference to patriotism or morality. Both stories lead to the same place - destruction of the American economy, security, traditional culture, values and its pesky middle class under the tyranny of global communism.
During unprecedented unemployment/underemployment, the US is DOWN to importing 125,000 new legal workers each MONTH, for a total of 1.5 million per year. Those of us in IT, now compete with offshore workers who can live well on $5 - $10K per year, guest workers who often pay no or partial taxes, and illegal aliens in the form of visa overstay.
One only has to look at what is hidden in the current unemployment stats, and at how the CPI has been manipulated downward (which in turn inflates the GDP) to see how bad things have become.
Here are close approximations of unemployment, CPI, GDP without the 'enhancements':
