Eloquent? Right...
Posted on 10/19/2011 12:48:19 PM PDT by mdittmar
The Occupy Wall Street movement is a more profound challenge to the current way of doing business than the Tea Party was or aspired to be.
Although Occupy Wall Street may have an impact on electoral politics, it does not share the partisan trajectory of the Tea Party. It is a more authentic and independent movement, giving voice to the outrage at how Wall Street has crashed our economy and how Wall Street and giant corporations have captured our political process and debased our democracy.
Occupy Wall Street has been criticized for not offering a clear set of demands. In fact, the protesters have been eloquent in rejecting the idea that they produce "one demand," and in articulating in broad terms what they want. More to the point, it's not for a lack of ideas that the country is in crisis. Put the unemployed to work retrofitting energy-inefficient buildings, teaching children, and meeting other unmet needs. Invest in a green energy revolution. Impose a financial speculation tax, and increase taxes on the wealthy and corporations (and make them pay). Put in place a single-payer, Medicare-for-All healthcare system. Undo NAFTA-style corporate trade agreements—and don't enter into any new ones. Force banks to renegotiate mortgage terms, and let foreclosed-upon families stay in their homes as renters. Overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission with a constitutional amendment and re-establish the principle that corporations exist to serve the people, not the other way around.
The country's problem is not the lack of a policy agenda. It's not even winning strong public support for the policy agenda—the public does support these ideas. The problem is translating the popular anger about the nation's state of affairs into a political movement strong enough to overcome the corporate opposition.
If Occupy Wall Street continues to grow, and if it bridges to more and more sectors of society—huge ifs, to be sure—Occupy Wall Street may serve as a spark to that political movement, something far more powerful and transformative than the Tea Party.
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HAHAHAHAHA...just what we need...another old media interpretation of what the movement is about...and how it is so much more profound and intellectual than any that have preceeded it. All spin, all the time.
The best I can tell from looking at them they must be protesting against soap.
OWS is the gift that keeps on giving for the MSM and for Liberals.
Without a decided or realistic focus, it can be whatever THEY say it is and they make up the purpose and significance from one day to the next.
Little children.
They can’t say outright what it’s really about (global communism). They don’t want to scare away the vast majority of the participants: young, clueless, ignorant, stupid, gullible, useful idiots.
“...it does not share the partisan trajectory of the Tea Party. It is a more authentic and independent movement...”
This is absurd on its face. Not only is much of OWS astroturf, it is Marxist, which means that it will never be more than an outlier politically.
This piece of writing is a joke, right. The analysis sounds a lot as if it were written by someone who couldn’t make the baseball team, so he is going to write something to prove to everyone that he’s important.
...since it was meant to give Dumbo cover, just like anything else this administration has done,....FAILURE!
You forgot the barf alert, though I suppose “US News and World Reports” was fair warning.
A fairtale spun by a mind guard to keep the groupthinkers from reconsidering their assumptions. Nothing more.
Eloquent? Right...
In other words, he has trouble changing a light bulb.
“What do we want?
We don’t know!
When do we want it?
Now!”
Correction:
“What do we want?”
We don’t know!
When do we want it?
We don’t know!”
It isn’t difficult to drag up a hodgepodge of malcontents from the wasteland of liberalism. There is always a supply of rabble ready to be a noisy nuisance.
Bonus heave: “Although Occupy Wall Street may have an impact on electoral politics, it does not share the partisan trajectory of the Tea Party. It is a more authentic and independent movement”
When there’s a fuzzy side to incoherence US News & World Report is there to deliver it.
It is a more authentic and independent movement {than the Tea Party} - What's more authentic and independent than the Tea Party? And what grass roots movement has more members??? The Occupiers are wannabe's!
The problem is translating the popular anger about the nation's state of affairs into a political movement strong enough to overcome the corporate opposition. I'm not a corporation and I oppose them! And, it doesn't say anything about their Democratic, White House and union thug support!!
Another example of trying to put lipstick on a pig to make it look and smell better.
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