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In reply to the discussion: Protesters again take to uptown streets (of Charlotte) [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)We were scuffy AND clean, most of us.
Urban camping wasn't needed because we had organization, leadership and focus--not a thousand different issues with no cogent message. We didn't have to struggle to get a few dozen people to show up; we showed up by the thousands, with a unified message that was HEARD, and then we went home. And then we showed up by the thousands again. And we did this without twitter, cellphones, computers or any of that shit. Bulletin boards (the real ones--not the virtual ones) in laundromats and coffee shops, phone trees, tell-a-friend. If you have focus on your cause you can get critical mass.
This effort was lame, a few dilettantes. BYOG--bring your own gripe. They couldn't even get a hundred people to turn out for an event of this significance--that should tell you how poorly organized they are, and how un-motivating they are making their message meaningful to anyone but themselvves.
I am lumping all the protesters together because they lumped themselves together. Two of them were the press-talkers and permit getters, according to most of the media I have seen/read.
As for the corporate protesters, why are they at the DNC convention to "send a message to Obama and ROMNEY?" Mitt sure as hell wasn't in Charlotte. Why don't they get their asses down to Tampa, or up to one of his rallies? I'll tell you why--because the GOP doesn't put up with that shit, and they don't have courage to go with their weak convictions. It's all fun and games with the Democratic Party, AKA tolerant ones, but they're not going to put their well fed asses on the line and get clubbed down in Tampa or at one of Mitt's less friendly venues. Too Much WORK.
I don't see any point in telling people that "No ballot will set you free" and to not vote for anyone. And that was the focus during their little march. If you see a point to that, and I am not saying that you do, it's a good idea to just stow that thought during election season, because I don't think it will be well received here.
I don't know how many times I have to say that they have every right to behave like stupid asses--after all, they had a permit. I am getting a bit sick of this false characterization that I--or anyone here--is saying that they don't.
That said, I have every right to mock their stupid performance.
The "anhedonia" has to do with their inability to find pleasure or anything good in ANYTHING. Everything sucks. Corporations will win--so give up. Don't vote. You're all gonna die. Fuck that kind of whining--I know people who are within a decade of their hundredth birthday who don't gripe like that.
The whole exercise was just dumb. It was a very small fail, as the kids say, because they didn't even have enough people there to make it a major fail.