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In reply to the discussion: To those who dislike #Occupy, or consider disliking it due to anything you may call impolite [View all]99Forever
(14,524 posts)... that "voting for" or even "working for" and "supporting" politicians that will be bought and paid for almost immediately after taking office isn't going really change a damn thing, for the betterment of the 99%, that is. The "system" is broken, as has been shown to us time after time. At this time, the only political movement that offers to address the real world problems I, my family, and my friends are facing, is Occupy. I wish it weren't so, but that is the harsh reality. Soaring speeches and a bare minimum of lip service to life threatening struggles a large and ever increasing segment of this Nation face every day, just aren't going to cut it any more. We NEED our elected officials to do the right thing and stand up for us, yet, day by day, the embittered partisan bickering only gets worse, and worse, and worse.
There is no more time to waste on finger-pointing and jockeying for political advantage, the very future and perhaps even whether this Nation has a future is at stake.
The President was absolutely correct about one thing for sure, this is not a game, at least not to those of us who always seem to be the ones who are set up to lose no matter what we do or say.
We're fed up and aren't going to take it anymore.