I agree 100% with that, Casey. I almost wrote something similar yesterday, but thought that I shouldn't provoke a difficult discussion. In my opinion, this is so much more real that the Tea Party movement, because this involves young people, who realize that their future has been thrown away by the "mutual interest" two party system that is controled by the big banks. They are the leaders of the future and therefore have much more potential than the Tea Partiers. This movement may become a destabilizing factor, but how else can you have change of a system, that is so totally controled by the PTB. A person like Michael Moore may be seen as a socialist threat by many in the US, but you need strong hard headed agitators like him to break open the closed system. A polite guy playing by the rules of official media (also controled) will never get through. Rick Santelli could have been (and normally would have been) stopped by CNBC, but he was smart enough to get his opinion out without being removed.

In Europe (outside GB) that function is being assumed by small parties of all kind that enter parlement on specific, popular issues and can grow very fast, when people are fed up with the status quo. It works refreshing and sets the PTB under pressure all the time and erodes their power at the same time. It would be extremely positive, if the US would also get more, smaller parties, though for that the electoral system migh have to be changed towards the system applied in continental Europe. Otherwise you will be stuck with a suffocating two party system for the rest of your life.