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Originally Posted by slotdirt
Sorry, but I'm missing the point in all of this. Rich people are rich and therefore are evil?
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No.
Yes, you are missing the point completely. OWS is not anti-capitalist, not anti-wealth, not-anticorporation. Wealth, success, freedom, happiness, working hard at something you enjoy, building a life, is the American Dream. We are a country of immigrants, this country is based upon that dream of a better, successful life.
It is about the small percentage of wealthy and powerful who have literally purchased our government, and have been running it for their own personal profit for the past 50-70 years. The 1% who have dismantled regulation and controls, so they can personally profit at the expense of everyone else.
The protesters - who are indeed the majority - have every intention of taking their government back from the 1% that think it is their private plutocracy, and get corporate ownership out of government, and citizen ownership of this democracy back in. So the American Dream can be shared again by the 99%.
And that has nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans or Independents. Although the Republican Party is clearly a wholly-owned corporate subsidiary of the 1%, and alot of Democrats are, too.
This 3-minute video by DC Douglas explains "why" OWS exists perfectly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK1MOMKZ8BI
This round table discussion from This Week with Christiane Amanpour this past Sunday demonstrates the complete misunderstanding of OWS by Peggy Noonan and George Will, which is succinctly answered by OWS protester Jesse LaGreca
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video...tests-14699460
Today the Republicans are so scared of losing their power and ownership, they are starting to give lip service as to the validity of the movement.
Unfortunately, the movement will not be able to be co-opted by a political party, as the Tea Party astroturf was by the Koch Brothers and Karl Rove. And that is precisely what the politicians are scared of.