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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 11:18 PM
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6. It's funny that we think we have more ability to influence corporations than politicians.
Sad too.

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  -Stop comparing OWS to the Tea Party! ChillbertKChesterton  Oct-14-11 10:20 PM   #0 
  - Fox News is running spots asking "Is OWS becoming the Tea Party of the left?"  ChillbertKChesterton   Oct-14-11 10:24 PM   #1 
  - Where is OWS?  dkf   Oct-14-11 10:30 PM   #2 
  - Gandhi's message to the British was simply: Get the fuck out  Kennah   Oct-14-11 10:52 PM   #4 
  - +99 nt  catabryna   Oct-14-11 11:06 PM   #5 
  - It's funny that we think we have more ability to influence corporations than politicians.  dkf   Oct-14-11 11:18 PM   #6 
  - The reactions now hitting the MSM are very telling  Kennah   Oct-14-11 11:50 PM   #8 
     - In all honesty I am looking around me and wondering which things I have due to corporations.  dkf   Oct-15-11 12:22 AM   #9 
        - Straw man argument  Kennah   Oct-15-11 12:41 AM   #11 
        - That's all about corporations and government. Geez.  dkf   Oct-15-11 12:45 AM   #12 
           - It's a positive feedback loop between government and corporations  Kennah   Oct-15-11 01:08 AM   #14 
              - Nope that is weak government.  dkf   Oct-15-11 01:15 AM   #15 
                 - Began with the corporatization of the government, noteably with Reagan  Kennah   Oct-15-11 01:35 AM   #16 
                    - Our problem is the people we elect to congress period.  dkf   Oct-15-11 01:48 AM   #18 
                       - If you don't look at the influence of money in politics, then you are left only with empty idealism  ChillbertKChesterton   Oct-15-11 01:54 AM   #21 
                       - The corporatization of government reached it's zenith with Citizens United  Kennah   Oct-15-11 02:10 AM   #24 
                          - Geez I am the idealistic one? How depressing.  dkf   Oct-15-11 02:21 AM   #25 
                             - On both points, I have to completely agree with you.  Kennah   Oct-15-11 02:24 AM   #27 
        - dkf, it isn't about getting rid of corporations.  JDPriestly   Oct-15-11 01:55 AM   #22 
           - I agree. In a way this is dissing our reps.  dkf   Oct-15-11 03:20 AM   #29 
              - Our reps deserve to be dissed as do our corporations.  JDPriestly   Oct-15-11 05:03 PM   #30 
  - Wonderful post, Kennah.  Enthusiast   Oct-15-11 02:38 AM   #28 
  - I'm not surprised that you don't get it. n/t  Marr   Oct-15-11 12:28 AM   #10 
  - In the end it's people complaining about the government.  dkf   Oct-15-11 12:47 AM   #13 
     - The government is part of the problem  ChillbertKChesterton   Oct-15-11 01:51 AM   #19 
  - Real politics is about change, it's a debate about real potential for somethiing different  ChillbertKChesterton   Oct-15-11 01:47 AM   #17 
  - DKF, based on your prior posts, I'm not surprised that you are confused  JDPriestly   Oct-15-11 01:52 AM   #20 
  - Everything they are protesting is what we've been complaining about for the past 11 years.  pacalo   Oct-15-11 02:21 AM   #26 
  - Tea Party is a religious faction within the Republican Party  Kennah   Oct-14-11 10:44 PM   #3 
  - Bring Back the Dream is organizing and may become the  OHdem10   Oct-14-11 11:45 PM   #7 
  - Very well said...  AntiFascist   Oct-15-11 02:06 AM   #23 
 

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