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In reply to the discussion: You tell me OWS is dead.... [View all]catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)or even just rejected the views of the right it was from listening to radical voices and almost never from the main stream. Ron Paul SOUNDS different and different is what they want. For some of us it was Marx or Lenin or maybe Abby Hoffman or Tom Hayden. Or many others but seldom from the center. It could have been music-Crosby stills and Nash singing "Ohio" or Creedence hitting "Fortunate Sun". Country Joe nailed the "Fixin to Die Rag" and hundreds more joined a movement. You would come to love the Kennedys or McGovern, Carter and others but it always starts with a theory that says things are wrong and must be changed. Would I rather they loved A Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, a Barney Franks or an Alan Grayson-sure! But action matter and dreams matter and I believe their's are better dreams. I think the movement lives and know it makes me happy.