Is there an "Us" Anymore in America?

A former president has made a well-intentioned appeal to the Occupy Wall Street/99-Percenter movements, asking them to patiently remember that we live, after all, in a capitalist society, and that "we" (ostensibly the poor, the middle class, and the rich) need to all learn to work together. But this is the sort of reminder that should be exclusively given to Wall Street. What such peacemakers need to be reminded of is that the American people have a right to be angry and to peacefully gather and express that righteous anger -- otherwise we wouldn't be even worthy of the name of "citizens of a democracy". The Wall Street Gamblers are the ones who are behaving like the rest of us don't matter. "We" and "Us" were intended in the former president's speech to signify a much needed collective unity that our country was formerly famous for in better days. The problem has been that the wealthy have shown no loyalty to America as a country of fellow citizens, fellow Americans. Their loyalty is to international profiteering over patriotic investment in our own motherland. We may live in a capitalist society, but when those who control the capital disregard democracy and their necessary economic responsibility as members of a democracy to the people of our country, the Certified Professional Capitalists lose their moral validity and cultural authority. Come on folks, if capitalism is not subordinated to our democratic institutions we lose our freedom. In such a case, we are merely living under just another form of economic tyranny. Literally breaking open the skulls of peaceful protesters with nightsticks and special crowd-control "hand-grenades" are fundamentally not the acts of a democracy. Capitalism at any price? For the sake of "unity", must we toss out our once proud hallmark for a democratic economy whose beacon of hope once brought millions to our shores fleeing feudal tyrannies? This Great Recession is an artificial crisis. The rich won't invest in the gainful employment of our nation, and they won't pay taxes. And now they piously ask us to be "patriotic" and accept "austerity measures"? Ripping out lampposts and plunging city streets and neighborhoods into darkness will invite a rampant level of crime and reduce us to a level of primitive survival the likes of which Western Civilization has not witnessed since the Dark Ages. Our bridges collapse and our paved roads revert to dirt, while the rich take off from the helipads on the roofs of their ridiculously overbuilt mansions to take a personal copter over to the airport or the yacht. They certainly don't need public infrastructure! Public transportation development through electric high-speed trains is hamstrung because the wealthy would rather violently fracture the very foundation of the ground upon which we both live and convey ourselves (instigating thousands of unprecedented earthquakes), in order to extract natural gas and sell it to foreign nations at a nifty profit. They would rather invest in boom-bust nonrenewable energies that further drive up global warming, rather than to build the embankments and steel tracks needed to bear a new network of green-energy passenger trains (which obviously require stable ground). Where is the "We" and the "Us" in all this? Why are the ones being left out getting this talking to? Why don't those who want harmony between the social classes take those arrogant men in the thousand-dollar suits by the ear and remind them where they came from!