What became of the Occupy Movement and what did it accomplish?

[rareboy]

Ah.

You see, there is another fundamental error.

It wasn't the poverty stricken that needed swaying. There was absolutely nothing in the GOP to attract them.

It was the middle class. The people who are struggling with the economic disaster unleashed by Wall Street. The ones who saw their pension savings obliterated while Mitt and his cronies made off like bandits.

It was having the 1%'s entitlement complex rubbed in their faces while they came to realize that the rich expect them to pay for everything.

The Occupy movement brought this into their focus every day leading up to the disastrous Caucuses and Republican primaries.

The GOP didn't get it. Neither, it seems, do many of them still get it. You apparently do not either.

 

[chance1]

^ the middle class won the election for Obama ?

Lol

Hispanics
Blacks
Women

You'd have thought he won by 10 with your math

 

[rareboy]

Uh so what you are saying is that Hispanics, blacks and women are not part of the middle class?

You've just answered why the Republicans lost the election.

 

[White Eagle]

I got this is an email just now. You may be interested in it.

http://www.nationofchange.org/hurricane-sandy-relief-reminder-occupy-s-original-spirit-1354181886

In Hurricane Sandy Relief, a Reminder of Occupy's Original Spirit

Luis Moreno-Caballud
YES! Magazine / News Report
Published: Thursday 29 November 2012

Mainstream media outlets from The New York Times and the Washington Post to the online magazineSlate have reported on the swift and effective response of the umbrella group known as Occupy Sandy. To borrow a metaphor from Times reporter Alan Feuer, it would seem that after nearly a year of "wander[ing] in a desert of more intellectual, less visible projects, like farming, fighting debt and theorizing on banking,” the Occupy movement has finally found its true cause and ultimate commandment: just helping out.

In fact, this determination to address basic needs has been a concern of the Occupy movement from the very beginning. For those who have followed the movement since its early days, the emergence of Occupy Sandy looks less like the endpoint of an erratic and itinerant journey than a necessary step in the ongoing evolution of the Occupy movement.

 

[White Eagle]

I looked through my bookmarks and found this. It is a page with all the Occupy places that are still online.


http://occupystreams.org/

 

[xbuzzerx]

The idea and execution ...... Not in sync

I agree with u on the concept

The reality of OWS did not resonate with common people

Demographics - poverty - the people who voted for Obama

Didn't need OWS to make up their minds

it didn't resonate with common people? Who was it out there in the events, aristocrats? lol.

 

[xbuzzerx]

^ the middle class won the election for Obama ?

Lol

Hispanics
Blacks
Women

You'd have thought he won by 10 with your math

Uh so what you are saying is that Hispanics, blacks and women are not part of the middle class?

You've just answered why the Republicans lost the election.

Yup. Keep up with the borderline racist contempt for the non-whitemale electorate. It served you well in 2012 and may it serve you well in 2016 Chance.

 

[chance1]

Uh so what you are saying is that Hispanics, blacks and women are not part of the middle class?

You've just answered why the Republicans lost the election.

No u just said it

When u find an OWS link to Obama victory with a credible source

Feel free

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Here in the Amsterdam they were camping out on the square in front of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange for a while.
I don't think they made much of an impression, since the interest in socialism is at an all time low, it being seen as part of the problem rather than the solution in many European countries.

The big Dutch banks that got in trouble got in trouble not because of all-too-pliable Dutch politicians (although it's certainly true that most of them were and still are) but because they bought those bad financial products based on American mortgages of a kind they themselves would never have granted to Dutch citizens.

I think the problem with Occupy is that it's a reaction to the consequences of a political doctrine that supposedly started with Reagan and Thatcher three decades ago, but never properly addresses the undelying business processes and the way that politicians have facilitated those by breaking down the protective legislation surrounding the banking system. That needs to be changed before anything else can and I don't think Occupy is going to cut it.

 

[JayHawk]

It would seem that some folks do not think the largest second term margin for a democrat since Eisenhower came from the painting of the other party as a protectorate for rich impersonal asshats. You bet your ass an entire YEAR of stories on inequity made the message that Romney was from wall street and they are all vultures resonate quite well throughout America... to deny that is to simply be a mindless drolling drone for a political party.

However I sincerely hope republicans keep thinking that way. I hope they think that if they just do Immigration reform then the world will be right with Latinos.... I really do. That should keep them out of office until i am a senior citizen....

 

[xbuzzerx]

It would seem that some folks do not think the largest second term margin for a democrat since Eisenhower came from the painting of the other party as a protectorate for rich impersonal asshats. You bet your ass an entire YEAR of stories on inequity made the message that Romney was from wall street and they are all vultures resonate quite well throughout America... to deny that is to simply be a mindless drolling drone for a political party.

However I sincerely hope republicans keep thinking that way. I hope they think that if they just do Immigration reform then the world will be right with Latinos.... I really do. That should keep them out of office until i am a senior citizen....

Chance's response pretty much gave away what we already knew to be the far right mindset. Blacks, women, hispanics etc. aren't viewed by them as part of the American mainstream. They're Romney's 47%, they're the under-trash that just sucks off the system and votes for anyone who gives them free gifts from the government, and don't work. That's what they think, that's how they approach national politics, and that's why they got their asses served up to them on a steaming hot platter in the last election.

They've backed themselves into an ideological corner where their worldview is so incapable of changing to fit the times and to concede being wrong about this monster fear-myth they've pandered for the last 30~ years to win elections via solely the white male vote that the blacks and hispanics are all welfare-abusing good for nothing leeches that now even that it's hurting them electorally they are incapable of changing their viewpoint or their rhetoric.

Dirty, smelly, violent people, Chance says. Sounds like how Republicans view pretty much any minority to me.

 

[xbuzzerx]

LMAO ROTFLMAO WRONG.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-wins-8-10-wealthiest-154837437.html - I've posted this before.

Why is it 8 out of the 10 richest counties in the country voted for Obama? Still making things up? I guess the facts are not sticking here. Oh and OWS did resonate.

Obama won a wide variety of backgrounds.

It's surreal how much like Tale of Two Cities this is getting.

The far right fringe believes Obama won by telling all the peasants he would give them two pence whenever rich people run over their children in the road with their carriages, apparently.

 

[Rolyo85]

Wait what?! He didn't?!