“The Occupy Wall Street movement is getting ready to occupy the presidential campaign,” according to the National Memo.
“Iowa activists are planning to ‘shut down’ campaign offices of all presidential contenders in the week leading up to the Jan. 3 caucuses in the hope that direct confrontation with the political system — at a time when hundreds of journalists will have descended on the state to cover the first official battle in the Republican presidential primary campaign — will focus national debate on income inequality, money in politics, and the needs of the “99 percent.
‘”Not just in Iowa but nationally, there’s a tremendous debate about whether to be involved in electoral politics at all,’ said David Goodner, a community organizer with Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and a regular at the Occupy Des Moines protest. ‘But the Occupy Wall Street movement is the third-party candidate, and so we’re not going to lift up an individual as a candidate. We’re not going to do anything to help elect anybody.’
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That is perfect. I say let the movement grow and the system change to appease the movement not the other way around. It is the system that is promoting the corruption not individuals.
Here is a clip about how bad the democratic party leadership is and at minute 3:00 Bernie Sanders lays it out on why individuals get corrupted.
Ben,
Did the only avowed socialist in the US Senate admit on this clip that the market worked??? BofA could not charge whatever they wanted?
John
If it takes nearly a million people in the streets for weeks on end to cancel the proposed $5 fee, I’d say that B of A has and will continue to charge whatever they can get away with. Next time they’ll hide it better. If B of A were a 100 smaller credit unions, yes the market would work, but not with the Gigabanks, the Gang of Four, as harsh as anything China could produce. Chase, Wells, B of A, and Citicorp, if memory serves me correctly.
Won’t they be surprised when Congressman Paul’s office invites them in!
John
I don’t think they will be surprised at all.
John,
I think what he admitted was democracy works when applied.
Ben,
Maybe I have been trying to explain capitalism with all the wrong terms: I guess you could argue that true free-market capitalism is the ultimate democracy. People voting with all their individual choices day in and day out.
John
…”Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.”….Mark Twain
Douglas,
This quote could certainly be applied to commercial decisions in the market place, but I suspect you want to apply it in a more general sense: Do we really want men like Stalin, Hitler or Pol Pot deciding what is right or wrong?
Put another way, IF you say that each of us decides what is right or wrong in an objective sense, then there is no ultimate right or wrong. Again you are back to the difference between the French and American revolutions.
John
You only prefer the American revolution because your group dominates history from then on.
The potential for creating a government responsible to the people is at our feet, we need to have the courage to pick up and realized its potential. Occupy Wall St. to me means not worrying about making demands in a failed system but to start creating a new paradigm.
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