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Yes, past tense....what DID OWS accomplish? Because as far as I can tell the movement is fading, camps are being shut down, and media coverage is waning.
So tell me. What DID the granola crusties actually accomplish?
I drove past a camp yesterday. I don't think it's over. It seems like the O in OWS is spreading. Oddly, I didn't see you any posts from you complaining about tea baggers doing the same thing.
What did it accomplish? It raised a voice that needed to be heard. It's not necessarily a 100% true voice, but it's one that should be heard. The rich in society have lots of money to spread their word and lobby governments to do what they want. Poor people don't have the same resources.
Of course, you seem to have some odd emotional hate to them so I doubt you'll bother really reading that answer.
I drove past a camp yesterday. I don't think it's over. It seems like the O in OWS is spreading. Oddly, I didn't see you any posts from you complaining about tea baggers doing the same thing.
What did it accomplish? It raised a voice that needed to be heard. It's not necessarily a 100% true voice, but it's one that should be heard. The rich in society have lots of money to spread their word and lobby governments to do what they want. Poor people don't have the same resources.
Of course, you seem to have some odd emotional hate to them so I doubt you'll bother really reading that answer.
Well, for starters the Tea Party put quite a few new elected officials in office. They were able to do that through a unified message that backed candidates that they felt were true to the message.
On the contrary, OWS has not had a unified message, and politicians have been conspicuously absent other than throwing no more than a few token words of support. When a movement can't even get the attention of opportunist politicians in an election year, you know your movement is not very effective.
One of the messages of OWS is to forgive student loan debt. While it may free up disposable income, it throws personal responsibility out the window. There's not a logical person out there who would actually support something like that.
Fractured and un-unified, yes. Clear, potent, and effective? Not a chance in hell. Most American's simply cannot identify with the unbathed, unshaven anarchists they've seen on their TV sets and blocking their intersections.
Sorry for your luck. But your colleagues on the left flubbed big time by pushing a movement that stood for everything and nothing at all at the same time.
The occupiers, and the tea party before them, are just early signs of what is to come ... People all over the world have witnessed fraud on a global level perpetrated by the governments of the nations of the world against their own peoples, but so many still do not fully understand what is going on ...
So this may fade over the winter ... but 2012 will certainly be an interesting year, you can bet on that. If things keep going as they are, prices are eventually going to start sky rocketing along with unemployment, and the phrase "Tent City" will no longer be allegorical.
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
Last edited by Ironmaw1776; 11-30-2011 at 05:50 PM..
I drove past a camp yesterday. I don't think it's over. It seems like the O in OWS is spreading. Oddly, I didn't see you any posts from you complaining about tea baggers doing the same thing.
That's because, as far as I know, "tea baggers" are not out there protesting and are not all that interested in politics. The Tea Party is, though.
The packed up their tents from the courthouse lawn and left in my town, because it got too cold and rainy for them. It will be interesting to see if this movement resumes next spring when the weather warms up.
They gave right-wingers something new to be angry about. Considering that they're already angry about everything else in the world, I'd say that's quite an accomplishment.
The packed up their tents from the courthouse lawn and left in my town, because it got too cold and rainy for them. It will be interesting to see if this movement resumes next spring when the weather warms up.
Nah. They'll likely have something shiny to play with by then.
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