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In reply to the discussion: The wet dream of having a real liberal in the White House today. [View all]lunatica
(53,410 posts)There has to first be a fundamental change in our way of thinking, which is what OWS and the Arab Spring are doing. It's that paradigm shift in consciousness that people have been talking about. I think we've started changing and the proof is that your argument is already using the idea of the 1%. The fact that you don't have to explain what it means shows that the concept is already part of our national consciousness.
I would argue that the change you're referring to is already happening just on that basis. The seed is germinating, which is why I think the outer manifestation of the OWS has calmed quite a bit (though it's really only gone local in the form of occupying foreclosures, etc.). On the inner levels of actually being assimilated and spreading on a much more localized level it's making changes which aren't outwardly apparent yet.