Political Post: Occupy Wall Street and Why it Matters

Oct 10, 2011 23:29

I haven't been very political here on my blog for some time. For those friends who weren't around during the last election I should explain that I'm a Democrat through and through, was taught those principles from my parents. I'm not a fence rider when it comes to politics (or about anything really). So from time to time, especially as the next ( Read more... )

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exhpfan October 11 2011, 19:30:10 UTC
It's great to see this post on your blog. With the Citizens United decision, the only hope the middle class has is to organize and spread the news through social media. The rich are going to control the mainstream media and attempt to brainwash the masses. We all do have power that corporations don't have even if the Supreme Court says they are "people" because we have the power to vote. Corporations have the power to influence these votes with propaganda, but the most powerful attack against propaganda is social media. I also will be devoting all my future online time to "spreading the word" and countering all the propaganda that will be flowing in the coming months.

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rattlesnakeroot October 11 2011, 21:01:45 UTC
Thanks ~ I knew you'd appreciate that. I wasn't going to start "campaigning" so early, but I'm pumped up that this movement is starting. I was worrried about anarchists somehow getting involved, but this 99% message is very mainstream and populist, and the fact that it is spreading reminds me of the reforms of the past. Something has got to be done to turn around our upside-down society. We have to get back to some logical approach. Even in the Reagan years, the very rich paid their share of taxes.

This idea of "protect the rich and they will save you" should have gone out with the French Revolution.

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rattlesnakeroot October 12 2011, 04:55:15 UTC
Here are some videos from Occupy Knoxville and Occupy Nashville, and Occupy Chattanooga is forming.

Occupy Knoxville

Sorry - posted the same one twice when my computer blinked out on me - fixed it:

Occupy Nashville

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rattlesnakeroot October 12 2011, 05:08:33 UTC
This one looks good too, in Raleigh, NC, and in Charlotte, NC, the corporate home of Bank of America!!!

This is happening October 15, so I will try to update with new video then.

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suo_gan October 14 2011, 02:37:06 UTC
I am absolutely thrilled by the turnout for Occupy Wall Street. It makes me laugh, listening to the likes of Mitt Romney spinning his earlier condemnation and trying to make political hay by appearing to agree with these protesters. Sorry, Mitt and the Tea Party in particular. These are folks who don't believe that corporations are people. This movement had it's roots in the bailout of the banks, the foreclosures, the attacks on the poor and middle class, and in Wisconsin with the attack on collective bargaining and the unions, and it's going to continue to grow and spread as more and more unions get involved ( ... )

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rattlesnakeroot October 14 2011, 03:01:53 UTC
The idea that OWS is "starting" a class war is absurd. My parents grew up in the Great Depression. I grew up hearing all about the class war going back to the WPA project!

I just wish the "Party of No" would go back to being the "Party of Maybe" or the "Party Willing to Listen to Reasonable Solutions." If anyone is to blame for this 99% idea, it's the Republicans who have stonewalled for the past two years on health care and the budget (and pretty much everything else). And yesterday they filibustered Obama's jobs program - I guess they don't want people to have jobs now. Then they can tell everyone without a job that they are bums.

I've been reading tonight that Bloomberg and the NYPD are threatening to "clean out the park" in the morning, and it's disturbing. One of the last comments shows a picture of a truck full of police barricades being brought in. :(
Story on Daily Kos

I can't say I'm surprised, but I hope people in other states who have events planned for this weekend keep up the fight and march on.

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rattlesnakeroot October 14 2011, 03:06:25 UTC

We just don't have to accept "The Way It Is." Things can change.

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