Jon Hunt, the big challenge is that so much of the Church, especially in the USA are the 1%. Furthermore, the problem seems to be built into the capitalist mechanism and for most Americans capitalism is the Christian way. Try asking people if they think Jesus was a capitalist. 

The idea of democracy isn't dead, it's very much alive. Politics or at least the political structure is dead. Voter turn out around the globe is very low. Votes don't equal democracy. Votes appease the masses while the oligarchs run the world. The Occupy Movement, like the G20 protestors, speak for a very wide spectrum of disillusioned 99-percenters. 

Many in the middle cling to the current systems because, as with lotteries, they hope that they'll catch a piece, or they look at the protestors lack of a proposal, a plan, a way out. The Occupy Movement is a cry, a voice. It isn't anywhere on the political spectrum. It's not an answer, but it is democracy. 

Rave on John Donne