@Finn dAbuzz,
its a non-trivial problem. i' m not going to pretend its not.
my instinct, whether it be representative of any particular movement or not, is that it becomes apparent [to many] that the public interest cannot keep up with organized private corporate interest in any realistic power relation.
and yet - we are to be a government of the people.
this might be the gestalt of the occupy movement . its mine, anyway.
here's the thinking. the economy, the nation's capital stock/savings was systematically & purposefully looted by the financial sector, over decades.
pretending that a commodity will never devalue and hiding behind a financial regime (rather, lack of same) which that cadre INSISTED UPON, paid for (senate & house banking cmtes, treasury, commerce & fed), and GOT:
laissez-faire - totally unregulated/untested derivative instruments, dangerous hedging strategies, black-box credit insurance house-of-cards infrastructure, manipulated credit raters, ridiculous leveraging granted to the banks, participation of banks in speculation, an uncontrolled merger process which created monstrous investment banks run by psychopaths.
this all happened in the last 30 years, as the protections from the last great boom-bust of the 20's (when lessons WERE learned and applied, legislatively) were unwound by 'free-marketeers'
the people's protections, first, capital and jobs, last - by this means - were stolen by the financiers and their paid clients in congress and, evid., both the past many and current chief executive & of course the fed. judicary.
this is a DRASTIC set of crimes, for which evid. no statutory remedy or relief exists or is availing. nevertheless, that great CRIME does and will demand a very serious remedy. in the absence of a responsible political agency (unlike the last great disaster, when the political system evid. still had a will to repair itself), the remedy is very likely a constitution amendment initiative -of some sort- to give the people BACK a certain amount of -real-power. just for a start.
my start would be a completely public system of federal campaign financing, and sharp limits on corporate lobbying at the federal level much beyond provision of information.
the broad objective would be the promotion of a clear avenue of empowerment of public individual citizen POLITICAL will, and dis-empowerment of corporate POLITICAL will.
to the extent a corporation has a REAL political will, it should be expressed in the aggregate of the REAL persons who have an interest in any sort respecting that corporation. by voting, as individuals, in their interest as do we all.
i.e., surely something that, if worth a damn, would be actively and bitterly opposed by both political parties. thus must be an amendment initiative.