The Atlantic: The Triumph of Occupy Wall Street

[LiberalElite]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/the-triumph-of-occupy-wall-street/395408/?google_editors_picks=true

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On her first campaign stop in Iowa in April, Hillary Clinton struck a decisively populist tone, declaring that “the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.” Later, she sharpened her rhetoric on income inequality by comparing the salaries of America’s richest hedge fund managers with kindergarten teachers.

Clinton isn’t alone. Democratic presidential challenger Bernie Sanders has spent the spring railing against the excesses of Wall Street greed while calling for a financial transactions tax and a breakup of the big banks. Even leading Republican contenders have jumped on the inequality bandwagon: Jeb Bush, through his Right to Rise PAC, asserted that “the income gap is real,” while Ted Cruz admitted that “the top 1 percent earn a higher share of our income nationally than any year since 1928,” and Marco Rubio proposed reversing inequality by turning the earned-income tax credit into a subsidy for low-wage earners.
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xposted in Good Reads, Occupy Underground, Populist Reform of the Democratic Party and GD

[guillaumeb]

1. Rhetoric is fine, if accompanied by action.

But will the action match the rhetoric?

[GReedDiamond]

2. "...Bernie Sanders has spent the spring railing against the excesses of Wall Street greed..."

Senator Sanders has spent way more time than just "the spring" doing that!

[FlatBaroque]

3. I picked that up as well

What is it about these propagandists that allows them to distort reality intentionally?

[GReedDiamond]

6. Good question. They frame the Populist theme around Hillary...

...then minimize the efforts of Bernie, as if he just recently jumped on the bandwagon he actually helped to build.

At least the article had a pretty positive tone to it, regarding the Occupy Movement and its ongoing efforts.

[FlatBaroque]

7. As an Occupier from

Day 1 myself, I think the causal link the author makes between Occupy and the current rhetoric is a bit tenuous. I think Occuly did a lot to bring the conversation to this direction, but abject performances at the polls probably has more to do with it. Interesting thing though, Bernie is asking for an Occupy movement in DC - i.e., a million people in Washington.

[polichick]

9. Citizens should definitely occupy DC - a place without representation...

though the seat of this pseudo-democracy. Good on Bernie!

[FlatBaroque]

10. Good on Bernie, indeed

I believe it will happen - the march on DC. If he gets the nomination I can almost promise you it will happen.

[localroger]

4. What I suspect they were trying to say

...with some ham-handed misstatement, is that OWS paved the way for Bernie to take his lifelong message to a larger and more receptive audience than anyone thought was out there. And now that it's clear that audience is out there, HRC is having to tailor her message to those people too even though it isn't a lifelong message for her.

[GReedDiamond]

5. Yeah, I agree, that's what they were going for...nt

[Damansarajaya]

8. Net worth:

Hillary Clinton--10 to 50 million dollars

Bernie Sanders--460 thousand dollars

Facts have a distinctly liberal bias . . .

[FlatBaroque]

11. Flat broke to 50,000,000.

That's what I call putting in the long hours. I often ask myself, what did this person, ___(name)_______ do to earn $________________?