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In reply to the discussion: You tell me OWS is dead.... [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)involved in over the past year. But those are a few. As someone said recently, 'you can't kill an idea'. I laugh when I see the comments stating that OWS is dead and/or was 'not effective'. THAT tells me who I am talking to and I always like to know who I am REALLY talking to.
As you say, this is the kind of committed movement we need so badly in this country and every Democrat I know fully supports them. Frankly I could not care less about political affiliation when it comes to any Social Justice Movement and in fact, we do not want a movement that cannot attract people of all kinds of backgrounds, political, religious, young, old etc. Any movement made up of one political party members is not a 'movement'. That is what made OWS so successful and so timely. People of all backgrounds are waking up and they needed a place to go. Now they have that .
But it's funny, the very same people who try to discredit the movement by pointing out that a few of Rand Paul's supporters joined the protests, are the very same people who will defend Republicans being appointed to powerful positions by a Democratic Administration. I just laugh at the obsession with Ron/Rand Paul, It is simply a ploy to try to emotionally manipulate democrats and it just doesn't work. This is about ISSSUES and no matter who is in power, until those issues begin to be resolved, there will be an OWS for the foreseeable future.