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They asked on guy "what would you like more....weed or a job?" They guy says "a job, so I can buy weed."
And, that was the most cogent exchange I heard. Quite sad, actually.
When defeated, a liberal foot soldier’s first instinct is to wallow in victimhood.
They amass to whine and taunt the victors-sort of like the more recent Obama speeches.
This remind me of a couple of scenes from Life of Brian where the People's Front of Judea and the Judean People's Front were arguing in the stands about who was the real revolutionary group, and after Brian was arrested, where John Cleese began writing a proclamation (strongly worded letter) about the injustice that had been perpetrated.
Life DOES imitate art!
HAHAHAHAHAHOHOHOHO!!! < gasp> < Wheeze!>
You deserve what you get Mr. Furey.
That says a lot right there. Sure, I go to work every day to put a roof over my family's head and food on the table. I go to the job I have because it helps protect people - even the idiotic "protesters" who don't have a clue how the real world works, or how dangerous a place it really is.
And yes, if that sounds condescending towards them that's because it is intended to be. Insulting too. Their fundamental ignorance of their own fragile existence is offensive to me.
Actually, their notion of participatory democracy is a good deal older than representative democracy. That’s what Athenian democracy was, and, to the extent it existed, that of the Roman Republic.
Participatory democracy re-emerged in the French Revolution, where it gave a wildly disproportionate voice to those who could show up every day in Paris and and shout loudly. IOW, the activists and those rabble they paid to support them. The vast majority of French people were disenfranchised either by being too busy to show up, or by distance from Paris.
Same thing happened in the Russian Revolution. The “soviets” were originally worker and soldier committees open to anybody who showed up. Over time those without fanatical devotion stopped showing up every day, leaving the soviets to fall totally into the control of the Bolsheviks, who did have fanatical devotion.
IOW, participatory democracy isn’t really “rule by the people” at all. It’s rule by the activists, which, oddly enough, doesn’t bother the activists.
I would suspect that a great many of the Occupiers are people for whom life has not been fair...at least in their terms. Other people have more than they do, and it’s NOT FAIR!!! don’t you know.
Canadians are lucky. They never had to endure the appearance of Lyndon LaRouche on the scene every four years.
Michael Medved has given over a full two hours of his radio show to OWS protesters to try and articulate why they are there and what they hope to accomplish. It was an EPIC FAIL all around.
Bump
Like all liberals, these astroturfers want everything handed to them. They don’t want to have to work for the change they think should just happen. It’s why they won’t succeed and it’s why thinking people do not take them seriously.
This is international street theater and these aren't revolutionaries, they aren't even functioning citizens for the most part, no more to be feared than those papier-mâché puppets that stalk the streets of Paris every time this sort of thing comes around and just as grotesque. There are real revolutionaries out here, and mostly we'd rather quietly clean our guns than shoot anyone with them. If the real one ever goes down it won't be neatly packaged with press packets in time for the eleven o'clock news, and there won't be any drum circles and there won't be any tents and there won't be any puppets.