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backscatter712

(26,357 posts)
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 12:10 PM Feb 2012

Am I the only one who thinks the right-wing revived the culture wars to suck the oxygen from Occupy? [View all]

Think about it.

Occupy has the nightmare message for the right-wing and their billionaire subhuman psychopath backers.

"We are the 99%". "We're being fucked by the rich!" Income inequality is at an all-time high, and the middle class is dying.

And it's working. The message is out there. "We are the 99%" has become part of the dialog, and people are demanding something to help those of us who are struggling.

The billionaire subhuman scumfucks will do absolutely anything to distract people from class war issues, and their weapon of choice right now is culture war issues.

God, guns and gays. Birth control. They brought Santorum's pet billionaire subhuman Friess on to talk about asprin, so we're arguing about fucking, not about how we're being fucked.

And we have to respond - it's a direct attack on basic civil rights and decency.

But we have to be conscious of the resources that are being diverted away from what Occupy was formed to talk about, the issue that the rich subhuman psychopaths desperately want to go away - the idea that they be asked to part with some of the money they swindled from everyone else, so humanity as a whole can get a leg up.

Am I the only one thinking this?

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they revive the culture war pretty much every election season. unblock Feb 2012 #1
You're probably not the only one, but I don't really agree. sibelian Feb 2012 #2
You may be correct Blappy Feb 2012 #3
I don't think anybody really revived it RZM Feb 2012 #4
Improving economy = new issue needed. mick063 Feb 2012 #5
I think they "revived" the culture wars newspeak Feb 2012 #14
I have been wondering WHAT this distraction pnwest Feb 2012 #6
I do think Occupy is but the latest skirmish in the larger class wars. backscatter712 Feb 2012 #12
I don't know if they are reviving the culture wars in order to drown out OWS Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2012 #7
I think they did it because it's always in the background The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2012 #8
The oldest trick in the book DonCoquixote Feb 2012 #9
Yes. Fix The Stupid Feb 2012 #10
Excellent sig! n/t backscatter712 Feb 2012 #11
Spot-on sig line. nt woo me with science Feb 2012 #13
No you are correct unionworks Feb 2012 #15
Partly, but it is more the economy ain't playing in Peoria no more nadinbrzezinski Feb 2012 #16
the ONLY way they can win is by smoke + mirrors + dividing the 99%. pansypoo53219 Feb 2012 #17
Not specifically. They revived the culture war because they have NOTHING ELSE. n/t Avalux Feb 2012 #18
exactly. They have nothing left. n/t n2doc Feb 2012 #19
+1. n/t FSogol Feb 2012 #20
I'm pretty sure the only time Occupy crosses the Republicans minds is... Sen. Walter Sobchak Feb 2012 #21
Personally I don't think the revival is to dilute the movement... Ship of Fools Feb 2012 #22
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