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In reply to the discussion: Occupy's tactics are hurting their message and the left [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)I would say most, if not all, people on this board are supportive of the OWS concepts of social justice and economic parity. They want to see corporations held accountable, they want to see politicians and lobbyists get a real divorce. They want Big Money out of the political process, they want elective power to represent them.
However, if you're not behind the "urban camping" or the protests that are extremely tangential, at best, to these essential concepts, you're branded as an "enemy" who "hates" OWS--I've caught that crap more than once. The demand for lockstep fealty to sometimes lame or dumb ideas is just tiresome. It doesn't mean one doesn't like the ideas noted in my first paragraph.
What's amusing is that I got ripped a new one by more than one intense acolyte for suggesting that OWS use some of their donations to rent office space, to manage their publicity, to coordinate donations, outreach, activities, etc. I had to laugh when they did just that--in NYC's financial district, no less.