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Originally Posted by Rochard
Not at all. Americans have the right to protest - It's great that they speak their mine. In the 1960s we had real reason to protest... Vietnam, Civil rights.... I don't know much about these protests (before my time), but they had a cause - "get out of Vietnam" and "Allow blacks to vote". OWS has... What? "Banks are bad"?
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What they are against is a very complex problem. It involves politics, ideology, campaign finance, regulations, taxation, etc. It can't be summed up in one simple message.
Just because a problem can't be easily summed up in a sound bite doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.
They also don't want to make the mistake of adopting a message, and then the opposition slices it so thin in order to make it seem false. For example, the 99% vs 1%, that was obviously not meant to be an exact calculation, but the media has gone out and taken it as such in order to try to discredit the movement.
They aren't against "banks". They are against the fact that banks have evolved into these giant monoliths that no longer server a useful purpose in supporting the economy. Instead of investing in business, they simply trade money back and forth in what amounts to gambling. So they no longer support the economy, but when they fuck up and lose all their money, they come crying to the taxpayer to get bailed out, then they go right back to doing it again.
But that's a very complex issue, it involves the banks themselves, politics, the fed, campaign contributions, etc. There is no way you can sum it up in a simple message.
Once again, I'm not saying the OWS is right, but you can't simply discredit them off hand because they don't have a sound bite message.