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In reply to the discussion: Our future is center-left not far-left. The business community and DLC, not OWS [View all]eilen
(4,955 posts)The Tea Party is not in anyway comparable to OWS. For one thing, OWS is not a Party. They do not endorse candidates. There is a difference between having a party and being one. OWS is a populist movement. If you don't know what kind of movement or where the movement is going, perhaps you have not attended a meeting or bothered to read anything. You have totally misinterpreted the purpose of the Occupy encampments. Perhaps you rely too much on the news media. This might be a shocker but the corporations that own the news media have an agenda. You reference Ghandi and Martin Luther King. OWS does not need a figurehead or hero.
I know the Democrats like to talk about their big tent, however, there is a true difference between being the party for business/owners or the party for labor/workers. Before you seal the deal with "American business", why don't you just tell us exactly what you mean by the term "American Business"? There is already a party that champions the cause of big business, and it starts with an R.