Pure speculationieatbigboogersOctober 24 2011, 17:04:41 UTC
But who's watching Al Jazeera? Or, as I'm doing, listening to Democracy Now? I think the protesters have public support up to a certain degree, but are capable of losing it if they engage in direct action or violence. Tony Bologna swayed support the protester's way by being caught on video instigating violence against them. It can go the other way if the occupiers get labeled as instigators. They have some large propaganda machines working against them. There wasn't much of an outcry when hundreds were arrested crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, and I noticed in some of the interviews I heard that the group on the bridge, perhaps wisely, wanted to distinguish itself from the core group at Zuccotti park. I think the public support grants the occupiers a limited space and scope. If the U.S. media, which - despite other voices - can still be quite effective in shaping public perception and discourse, can effectively communicate the notion that the occupiers have overstepped their bounds, the police get more leverage to crack-down hard.
I don't really know fuck all, and I hope I'm wrong, but I don't see an immediate change on the horizon. I think there's enough people left with some remaining faith in the electoral process that might be waiting to see what happens in 2012 before they'll readily allow the occupiers to be the voice of "the ninety-nine percent." If the Republicans win, all the angry energy gets redirected at the new administration and we all rest our hopes on the 2016 Democrats who will inevitably fail us. If Obama wins, he proves himself loyal as ever to Wall Street, pharmaceutical and insurance giants, and the military industrial complex, and then maybe the public at large is ready to try something new and fully back an insurrection against the powers-that-be.
I don't really know fuck all, and I hope I'm wrong, but I don't see an immediate change on the horizon. I think there's enough people left with some remaining faith in the electoral process that might be waiting to see what happens in 2012 before they'll readily allow the occupiers to be the voice of "the ninety-nine percent." If the Republicans win, all the angry energy gets redirected at the new administration and we all rest our hopes on the 2016 Democrats who will inevitably fail us. If Obama wins, he proves himself loyal as ever to Wall Street, pharmaceutical and insurance giants, and the military industrial complex, and then maybe the public at large is ready to try something new and fully back an insurrection against the powers-that-be.
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