The Super Committee, no doubt meeting furiously in their secret lair which may or may not be affiliated with the Legion of Doom, has reached an impasse.

(ABC News) — The bipartisan 12-member panel is sputtering to a close after two months of talks in which key members and top congressional leaders never got close to bridging a fundamental divide over how much to raise taxes.

The funny thing is, no one seems to care, we as a nation have simply moved on from the Fox News-Teaparty driven talk of austerity and budget cuts, but it didn’t happen magically. There’s a good reason, the Teaparty’s arch nemesis, Occupy Wall Street, has dominated the national dialogue for weeks.

Today the talk has shifted nationally (And I can assure you, locally, right down to the proverbial water cooler in my office). The conversation is now about income inequality, rigged deals, over-paid bosses and corrupt politicians who protect them. The last discussion I overheard between two co-workers wasn’t about whether taxes on the rich should be raised, it was by how much and on what income.

Anyone who is not clear on why Occupy is drawing such a brutal response should understand this dynamic: the poepple who lead the class war being waged against regular folks do not like scrutiny or free thought. A system where you urge your fellow Americans to vote directly against their best interests is difficult to maintain, it demands a massive infrastructure of deception and money and misinformation and no small measure of religion. Otherwise it begins to crumble, increment by increment, and the Big Lie is exposed. Thanks in part to the Internet generation and OWS, I believe that collapse is underway now making the 01.% funding the Big Lie are very nervous.

And they should be nervous.