Interesting how you set up the debate so that your argument in the beginning is truth and we have to say whether we should do something about it or not.

No, the rich do not tell us (the Middle Class) what to do. I vote based on my opinions only. Do they have influence? Of course. They run the media and hollywood, which some people worship (how do you think Obama got elected in the first place?)

But to suggest that the rich are actually ruling the world is typical teenage rebellion nonsense. If this is true, than they actually deserve it for being the only smart people in this world. If people really are that stupid to just let the rich tell them what to do, than they deserve to be mindless puppets. But this isn't the case. We are individuals and we have plenty of people who want to "stick it to the man". The others just don't care at all what the rich say. Only a couple are actually influenced, and they're actually the very people who get into the revolutionary trend in the first place.

The idea of revolution and going against the mainstream is a ploy by the Corporations themselves. Corporations love taking advantage of trend clinging teens, examples:

Going Green - Corporations sell a bunch of green products while also advertising how their product uses less plastic. Less plastic means less money spent. More people will buy that product because they think they're saving the Earth, increasing profit a shit load.

Rebellion - Hot Topic, the music industry, etc. This is too easy, anyone who doesn't understand this one is retarded. Rebellion is a corporate scheme.

and so on and so forth.

The only reason why I voted here is because I believe in Aristotle's view on Democracy. A nation ruled by the Middle Class. Fuck the Lower and Higher Classes, they will most likely vote selfishly. The Middle Class is most likely (not guaranteed of course) to vote for what's best for the country.

Viva la revolution!

No I'm serious. It's a civic fucking duty to participate in revolution if our government becomes corrupt. If it gets to the point where I'm in a bread riot, I'll turn this country on its ass and burn it to the ground. I'm pretty sure the founding fathers would agree that it's the right thing to do. Yeah, I guess I'd be a terrorist, but I'd rather call myself a very violent activist.

Edit:

Though, I have to agree with pyg. The rich don't rule the country. At least, not yet. I don't think they will for a very long time either.

Why?

Because people are too caught up in their lifestyles to care. Although a few may have most of the power, people are pretty happy. They get access to basically anything they want for a reasonable price. A revolution can only occur when people are dissatisfied.

And I'd venture to say that most people don't recognize the extent to which this statement is true, or a few more might care in spite of the comforts society currently affords.

People have parents for a reason...to grow...biologicle factors in effect there should be no reason why anything should have fear...via y= 2012 - X=1987 = 25 in math a hyper cube as five demsions incopreating the 5th so...if the world is round why is it flat at the same time....theres no reason the average person in this day and age shouldent have the proper natural will to deciver life in a interstellar reality...in point i ask teh question why dont we?

are yah saying "so" or "no"?

anyway, i wish you would've sited some evidence to support your claim

"... Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, ..." ~ Declaration of Independence, 1776

Assuming this is true, doesn't the poor agree to this policy? In America everyone is given the chance to turn in applications, to educate themselves... it's up to you, if you're poor, to get a job, support yourself, get an education and move up. You have to prove yourself in America, you can't just abolish class and hope everything will work out.

Also, there is a fair distribution of responsibilities and suffering across every class, the human condition guarantees it. Which set of suffering and responsibility do you want? If you want to know that there will always be food on your table, indefinitely, rise from the lower class, if you then want to know that you can never be fired from your job, rise from the lower middle class, to the upper middle class, and build your own business or infiltrate the ranks of an existing business... if then you want to ensure everything in your life will be perfect, and you want to change the world, rise from the upper middle class and join the ruling class, but in doing this you'll probably have to become an immoral person (If you already aren't one).

The lower class doesn't deal with any of the responsibility of the middle or ruling class, so in a way they have it easy, and this can be said about any class. One class deals with one form of stress or responsibility, the other deals with a different kind. No one is really holding the lower class down, they do that themselves.

This is something that Plato touches on in the Republic, here's a quick summary:

"For one thing, if the ruling party mistakenly legislates to its own disadvantage, justice will require the rest of us to perform the (apparently) contradictory feat of both doing what they decree and also doing what is best for them. More significantly, Socrates argues that the best ruler must always be someone who knows how to rule, someone who understands ruling as a craft. But since crafts of any sort invariably aim to produce some external goal, good practitioners of each craft always act for the sake of that goal, never in their own interest alone. Thus, good rulers, like good shepherds, must try to do what is best for those who have been entrusted to them, rather than seeking their own welfare." -Link

Minus 2000, we live in a representative republic where the majority chooses who leads them.

If you don't like the direction, learn, speak, persuade, vote.

At the end of the day, we don't have anyone to blame but ourselves (and maybe Glenn Beck... j/k kind of)