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struggle4progress

(118,237 posts)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 04:44 PM Sep 2012

Who is marching in Charlotte to protest the DNC?

<a Paulite, for example:>

... A member of the Conservative Party and ardent supporter of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, Bret Morse marched with Occupy Wall Street protesters outside the Democratic convention in Charlotte. Around his neck was his guest pass from attending last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa and a large placard calling for an end to overseas drone strikes targeting American citizens who authorities said had joined al-Qaida.

"Other than economics, I agree with a lot of things the occupiers believe in," said Morse, a 30-year-old from Marion, N.Y. "We're both opposed to corporatism, the corporations running the government. We would just go about ending it in different ways. I believe in small government" ...

<and someone nostalgic for the 60s:>

"The Democratic and Republican parties are not representing the people," he said ...

That's why he says he's a member of a new incarnation of the New Youth International, better known as the Yippies. The group in the 1960s was famous for staging counter-culture protests. Ironically, members of the group, which had its heyday in the 1960s, were accused of inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic national Convention in Chicago ...

http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/who-is-marching-in-charlotte-to-protest-the-dnc/article_439f8e40-6ef2-5241-8011-838d1b8ed2ac.html

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Who is marching in Charlotte to protest the DNC? (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2012 OP
GOP has a big problem with those under 40s in their party davidn3600 Sep 2012 #1
So car, the marches have been fairly marginal brooklynite Sep 2012 #2
 

davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
1. GOP has a big problem with those under 40s in their party
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 05:52 PM
Sep 2012

They are mainly libertarian, and do not prescribe to the party social conservative platform.

The Paulites actually have more in common with OWS than you think.

brooklynite

(94,384 posts)
2. So car, the marches have been fairly marginal
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 06:06 PM
Sep 2012

Maybe the Occupy people have realized that there IS a difference between Democrats and Republicans?

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