Right. Just like how conservatives have spewed the same tag lines since the early 20th century.
Cut taxes for the rich and watch the economy grow by leaps and bounds.
Government regulation is a job killer.
Public school systems are awful because the teachers are awful.
America is an exceptional nation with a special mission to spread hope and freedom to all corners of the world.
Peace through military strength.
Unemployed people are lazy and stupid.
Minorities have it easy thanks to Affirmative Action and civil rights laws.
Blah, blah, blah. What else is new. Any semi-intelligent, self-reflective thinker would ignore these ridiculous conservative/right-wing arguments in defense of tyranny by the rich and the police state. Neo-cons and RandPaultards never stray from the talking points.
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Originally Posted by stateofnature
It is hilarious that supporters of the Occupy movement like coldbliss think they need to "teach" people , be it by posting on a forum or by occupying the metro.
you are teaching no one. Everything you say about inequality, plutoracy, socialism etc has been said before for decades if not centuries. These are not insights.
instead of thinking that the reason people don't agree with the Occupy movement is because they have not been taught, go with the simpler and probably correct explanation: the arguments and solutions (or lack thereof) of the movement are not persuasive.
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