Good question, although it’s a fallacy that the lines are drawn clearly between the wealthiest 1% and the other 99%. A good number of the 99% are right wingers who either are among the 1% who benefit from constant tax cuts and subsidies for the rich, or are 99%ers who have been duped into cutting their own body parts off to feed the starving billionaires. And in a recent survey of the wealthy, 65% said that those making more then $1 million a year should pay a greater share of taxes in order to support America and get the unemployed back to work. The people driving for ever more for the top 1%, to be taken away from the 99%, are a very small minority of the total population.
The OWS movement can either try to work within the system to change it, collecting donations and hiring lobbyists to try to buy all the for-sale lawmakers in Washington and all the state governments, or they can do as Mario Savio said, ”...throw your bodies on the gears and wheels of the machine.” I suspect that is what it will take to make the right-wing authoritarian leaders realize that they have to share. They can’t have it all for themselves. I hope not, but that’s usually how it plays out.