OCCUPY GEORGETOWN! Bloomberg:

Federal employees whose compensation averages more than $126,000 and the nation’s greatest concentration of lawyers helped Washington edge out San Jose as the wealthiest U.S. metropolitan area, government data show.

The U.S. capital has swapped top spots with Silicon Valley, according to recent Census Bureau figures, with the typical household in the Washington metro area earning $84,523 last year. The national median income for 2010 was $50,046.

The figures demonstrate how the nation’s political and financial classes are prospering as the economy struggles with unemployment above 9 percent and thousands of Americans protest in the streets against income disparity, said Kevin Zeese, director of Prosperity Agenda, a Baltimore-based advocacy group trying to narrow the divide between rich and poor.

Crony capitalism, corporatism, government “partnering” with big business — these are the structural stages of a economy under liberal fascism.

Keeping the useful idiots pitted against each other, even as the government continues to solidify its power and pick winners, losers, and “partners” — that’s the puppetry.

Many of us recognize what’s going on. But the question is, is it too late to stop it, now that it appears the left’s assault on our cultural institutions has yielded the very kind of “politically engaged” morons they can manipulate and use as foot soldiers for the Cause.

It’s surreal, watching people march and chant and demand more centralized control and less individual liberty. But then, the fibers of a common thread — to accept the will of the many and to marginalize the individual — has been sewn through the cultural fabric for years, beginning with the assumptions we’re taught to make about language and meaning themselves.

This was inevitable. And I’m not sure we have the political will to beat it back, because frankly, I don’t think we have a major political party that wants to see it beaten back.

(thanks to IP)