Reply #198

of a couple of burnt flags were potential supporters anyway?"

That's proven in this thread. I've noticed the ones who are most doom and gloom about this flag burning are the same ones, IN EVERY OCCUPY THREAD, who are against the Occupy movement for one given reason or another anyway. The truth is, Occupy is a protest against the WHOLE SYSTEM OF CAPITALISM. Even if they don't acknowledge it themselves, Occupy is against the exploitative nature of the systemic abuses that are inherent in the capitalist system. That's threatening to some people. So they'll take turns denigrating Occupy or demonizing it.

Everybody might as well get used to the fact that there are going to be people against the Occupy movement, even liberals. It doesn't surprise me because liberals (I guess I should say some liberals and ALL neoliberals), just like the RW, have a stake in the system itself and the Occupy movement is a protest AGAINST the system. That's the same system that has and will continue to fuck over the 99% in favor of the 1%.