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In reply to the discussion: You tell me OWS is dead.... [View all]Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)It's precisely *because* I think that things like free-at-point-of-use healthcare would be very good indeed for America that I find significant numbers of left-wingers wasting their time on a movement without goals, when they could be undertaking the same activity with a clear list of goals and a strategy for achieving them like "we want free-at-point-of-use healthcare; we will protest until we get it, and we will vote and campaign for people who support it", depressing.
I think that most of the things that individual occupiers wanted were good things - if I didn't, I wouldn't be worrying about them wasting their effort. My beef with the movement was that it involved a lot of left-wing political activity being channeled into an entirely pointless activity, when it could have gone to actually achieving legislative change.
Occupy was *exactly* what I would have wanted to see left-wing activists getting up to if I were a right-winger. Since I'm not, it saddened and annoyed me.