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In reply to the discussion: we need a democratic tea part movement [View all]BlueTsunami2018
(3,492 posts)Instead of using the momentum to run OWS candidates at every level in the Democratic Party, they instead embraced ridiculous and impossible ideas like eliminating capitalism and moving to a barter system. And somehow doing this without using the apparatus in place. If we had built the grassroots that were there and used them to work the system from within, who knows how big and how far wed have gotten? Wed have been five years into it already.
Instead the baggers have a ton of elected officials destroying the country and the left is still impotently shaking their fists in rage as it happens. OWS had real potential as evidenced by Bernie Sanders huge popularity among the working class in 2016, it would have worked if anyone would have had the sense to use the system to change it.
It still infuriates me how pigheaded those people were.