Odd video from last year, a Republican supporting OWS

[freshwest]

Found this, an interview with Lawrence O'Donnell, but I don't know what happened to this guy. He was a Democrat, a Republican, then joined the Reform Party.

He was the Governor of LA. I didn't watch the Insane Clown GOP Posse, so I don't even know if he was allowed in the debates.

I wonder if this guy would help the Occupy movement in the South???

[Leopolds Ghost]

1. Good for him. Assuming "They" haven't gotten to him, lol, anyhow...look at those folks behind Romney

53%ers, imagining they have something in common with Mitt Romney purely because they have white skin. I wish there was a way to reach out to all of the 99% but it's worse than that -- on top of the folks who won't address the movement because of prejudice, you have center-left professionals who won't address it because of privilege -- we know them in real life, they are considered the mainstream of the Democratic Party now, no need to imagine that they are trolling -- they feel that a society in which the traffic moves on time and their jobs are secure is proof that the system is working -- and folks like Herman Cain who have a pure Horatio Alger attitude, imagining that America = capitalism and that there is no other goal worth aspiring to.

There's a great article in the Post from Feb about said centrist professionals (really, center-right given their unspoken creed that capitalism is the highest virtue in life) and I think I'll repost it now that I found it. Plus two creepy tidbits from otherwise positive news articles...

[freshwest]

2. It's disheartening. On a personal level, there's little difference. Sometimes, it's scary:

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Kahlil Gibran

But then I remember this from Anonymous:

The ones you are noticing are more terrified than anything else. They are lashing out because they are comfortable; and to acknowledge what is happening is a threat to that comfort. Ignore them, for they are not the voices that will rise in the coming days, months and years. They are not the voices of our collected humanity. They are the old voices of fear and impotence.

Look forward to seeing those posts.