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In reply to the discussion: Single dad trying to take back home occupied by OWS [View all]Aerows
(39,961 posts)And people need to wake up to that fact. You and I have disagreed on a few things, but on this, we are in absolute agreement. You can't change the politicians until you change what the issues are, and what is relevant to the political climate.
OWS has made the plight of the 99% noticed in the minds of the American people, which are the voters, after all. Before that, nobody gave a damn. This is an apolitical movement, but it will of course have political impact, and SHOULD. Politicians should be waking up and realizing that the American people are pissed - not about whether a woman has to make the horrible decision about whether to have an abortion, whether two people of the same sex are in love and get married, and whether children should be forced to study creationism in school.
The American people are pissed because our land of opportunity is being pissed away and handed over to the 1%, who won't even follow the rules they already have, much less the bullshit interpretations of "the rules" they want to enforce on every man woman and child in the 99%.