It's not a matter of not having any government, but - and this is one area of overlap between the 99% and the Tea Party - it's about returning to a more democratic system, one that has a lot of input from a lot of sources, and moving away from a government by a few 'experts who know better.' We've tried the 'Harvard-Yale' way, and it got us to where we are now, and frankly the results are less and less impressive all the time. To me it's just one more person who thinks they are 'the smartest guy in the room' having all the answers, when I don't even think most of the questions have been raised yet.
And the Occupy stuff is not going to be it either, it's a start, and if nothing else it's showing the moral, spiritual and intellectual bankruptcy of the current system and then proving it with the police state crap. Really, last week we had two moments, the kind of stuff that just can't be imagined where the irony was so delicious that it hurts.
One was the riot squad in Berkeley - doing that macho cop thing of beating up college kids while wearing full riot gear, on the steps of Sproul Hall. Those steps, proclaimed in 1997 by the University as 'The Mario Salivio Steps' in honor of the Free Speech Movement. Hell, what better place to unleash police state brutality on people for assembling to address the government for redress of grievances then the exact place that honors that exact same crap happening in 1964. Well except the cops in 1964 were real men, and didn't need riot gear to beat up teenage girls. And they did it the day before the annual "Mario Salvio Lecture" to boot. It could have only been better if it was Lexington and Concord on July 4th.
Second was the police in NYC destroying everything in that camp, including trashing most of the library the Occupy people put together - hell, they might as well have put the books in a pile and burned them while singing Deutschland über alles. Sad, if they had taken the time to read and understand the Constitution - and the would have found it reprinted in lots, and lots, and lots of the books they tossed into dumpsters - they could have skipped the entire exercise.