Just asking ... this summer was supposed to be a big summer for OWS. Is that totally gone now? n/t

[MADem]

234. Oh please, don't be childish.

If you're not a thousand percent cheerleader, you're "spewing shit" and "bitching" and "shouting from your keyboard" -- is that it?

My idea of "making a difference" is a bit different from yours. I take old people to the grocery and the doctor. I help them with minor repairs around their homes. I bring them to the polls to vote in primaries, local elections and general elections--by the hundreds. I "put myself out" every fucking day. I do it for free, I don't even ask the "gubmint" for mileage. I just do it because there's a need.

I don't have piles from sitting on concrete complaining about "the man" and trying to protect my backpack of goodies I swiped from Mom's pantry from some pungent gentleman with a bottle of Night Train and a bad attitude.

Sitting around on my ass--with or without a keyboard--living in a tent on a sidewalk in unsanitary conditions, with signs, voting on absolutely NOTHING of importance with a bunch of self-important twits using hand signals, repeating everything some idiot with a stick says, refusing to do basic community things like getting a permit for a march, fucking with the police for pure sport, refusing to repudiate those black hoodie vandals, is NOT "making a difference." It's making a bit of a spectacle, and making a public health hazard, and making people think you're a bunch of self-important, immature assholes. The bottom line is this--OWS hasn't done shit all summer, and they can't blame the weather. They'll show up for the conventions, and act like they matter, but they don't. They could have been heroes, they captured the dissatisfaction--and they squandered it, like selfish children. And now--by their own lack of positivity, their own refusal to seek out leadership, their own hubris--they aren't the giants they could have been, they're just fleas.

I have eyes and I can see. Try it sometime.