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So they are willing to sleep in the street for weeks, but 25% of them can't even take a few minutes to vote? What insanity! Don't like the Dems or Reps? Totally understandable, vote 3rd party. But how crazy to skip voting and think camping out in the street is the way to change.
Sleeping out on the street gets concert tickets and black Friday deals, not political change.
If you have that much passion, organize it into a real movement, get people elected and hold them accountable to your ideals. Oh wait, that would be work. Drum circles and pot smoking is much easier.
So they are willing to sleep in the street for weeks, but 25% of them can't even take a few minutes to vote? What insanity! Don't like the Dems or Reps? Totally understandable, vote 3rd party. But how crazy to skip voting and think camping out in the street is the way to change.
Sleeping out on the street gets concert tickets and black Friday deals, not political change.
If you have that much passion, organize it into a real movement, get people elected and hold them accountable to your ideals. Oh wait, that would be work. Drum circles and pot smoking is much easier.
This is what this generation knows. Want something..then camp out overnight.
If you have that much passion, organize it into a real movement, get people elected and hold them accountable to your ideals. Oh wait, that would be work. Drum circles and pot smoking is much easier.
I tried to keep an open mind about OWS until I saw the first drum circle. That was it for me.
Voting in this country no longer works unless you have the bucks to buy off the politicians. That is one of the reasons for OWS.
We can look at the promises made to the people, and see how that turned out, and can also look at the top contributors and see how they made out.
Some of the top promises made to the people by Obama
More transparency in government - Nope
End to the wars - Nope
End the corruption on Wall Street - Nope
Close Gitmo - Nope
Centralize ethics and lobbying info for voters - Nope
Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials - Nope
His donors on the other hand, in time when the country is going down the tubes, are doing quite well on Wall Street.
What was that you were saying about elections again?
Looks like that is not working, so OWS is a good platform for the people to make public their grievances, and standing on Wall Street is ground zero, where the masters that buy the politicians exist.
In all cases, the ones buying the politicians win.
Top Contributors to Obama
University of California $1,648,685
Goldman Sachs $1,013,091
Harvard University $878,164
Microsoft Corp $852,167
Google Inc $814,540
JPMorgan Chase & Co $808,799
Citigroup Inc $736,771
Time Warner $624,618
Sidley Austin LLP $600,298
Stanford University $595,716
National Amusements Inc $563,798
WilmerHale LLP $550,668
Columbia University $547,852
Skadden, Arps et al $543,539
UBS AG $532,674
IBM Corp $532,372
General Electric $529,855
US Government $513,308
Morgan Stanley $512,232
Latham & Watkins $503,295
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Originally Posted by brentwoodgirl
So they are willing to sleep in the street for weeks, but 25% of them can't even take a few minutes to vote? What insanity! Don't like the Dems or Reps? Totally understandable, vote 3rd party. But how crazy to skip voting and think camping out in the street is the way to change.
Sleeping out on the street gets concert tickets and black Friday deals, not political change.
If you have that much passion, organize it into a real movement, get people elected and hold them accountable to your ideals. Oh wait, that would be work. Drum circles and pot smoking is much easier.
I also look at OWS as a democracy by the 99% against the tyranny of the 1%, which counteracts and side steps the buy your politician route that has not been working for people and the best interest of the country.
Right now, the OWS movement represents a question mark ? because there are so many views and opinions that are being hammered out and discussed at the protests, and online in thousands of threads that have been created.
It has created discussion and debate in healthy way and it takes time for consensus to be reached by many. It is not something that happens over night.
The Powers that Be, The media, and those that support the status quo are trembling in their boots, because there is no defined message yet for them to attack and play divide and conquer with. So they attack fragments that do not represent the whole movement.
Are you serious? Do you believe what we have is true Capitalism? The OWS crowd wants to remove money from politics, and prevent wall st. and corporations from burying all of us. I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, so in a sense I'm an Independent who supports the OWS Movement.
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