Occupy Camp David !!

[Phineas Finn]

From the few that I've met, the Occupy folk could best be described as anarchists more that leftists. I know several young people who are loosely affiliated with a few anarchist groups (contradiction in terms?), and the worst thing you can accuse them of is moderation. They use the word like it's a profanity.

[crabsnbeer]

From the few that I've met, the Occupy folk could best be described as anarchists more that leftists. I know several young people who are loosely affiliated with a few anarchist groups (contradiction in terms?), and the worst thing you can accuse them of is moderation. They use the word like it's a profanity.

I am sure some of the pawns are. But the group is basically funded and run by the unions.

[zenwalk]

I am sure some of the pawns are. But the group is basically funded and run by the unions.

We wouldn't want to cater to American workers would we? We prefer keeping them lean and mean on Chinese wages. Meanwhile, billions are hemorrhaging into subsidies for the uber rich. Is that the way you want to live? Maybe you aren't old enough to remember but previous to Reagan this country aimed it's policy making at creating a healthy prosperous MIDDLE CLASS. Not a handful of uber rich. The old model worked a lot better because a healthy middle class means there's money to buy the things that make the rich, rich. Now we have the working poor deciding whether to turn the heat on or use that money to put gas in their car to take them to a job that perpetually keeps them a pay check behind their bills. Yes, there's plenty of room for an occupy movement. It's the next stage and it always begins with the avant garde. I'm sure the original Boston Tea Party was perpetrated by vermin too.

[crabsnbeer]

Zen, The point is that these are not radical revolutionaries. This is standard issue American Left/Partisan Democrats. They will support the Democrat party incumbents.

[zenwalk]

Zen, The point is that these are not radical revolutionaries. This is standard issue American Left/Partisan Democrats. They will support the Democrat party incumbents.

From my perspective the movement has been bending over backwards not to align themselves with political figures, to stay "clean" if you will. That can't go on forever because if they want to grow into a viable responsive force it has to start making connections outside itself. Ideally what I want is what the Tea Party began as: a vocal forum that forces a rethinking of everything from foreign policy to economics before Fox & Friends started buying the donuts over there.

[gps29070]

From my perspective the movement has been bending over backwards not to align themselves with political figures, to stay "clean" if you will.

Then they bring in Jesse Jackson speaking at Occupy Chicago, Occupy London, Occupy Wall Street.. Al Sharpton speaks at the Occupy Wall Street....

Come on... it's a left-wing thing.... Let's stop pretending it's some sort of neutral thing...