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In reply to the discussion: OWS has meant just as much - if not more- than the teabagger movement to politics... [View all]KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)I usually avoid OWS threads as they tend to be more polarizing than enlightening. You hit a major point that has been my major contention with OWS. While it's wonderful to be politically energized and want to express your frustration/anger, the way to gain results is not by sitting in drum circles, it's organizing voters and pushing politicians to listen and then accept objectives of the group (or councils or whatever you want to call them). It's working to get results inside the system as opposed to standing outside and being ignored. This is what teabaggers have been able to do with the heavy funding of right wing corportists who have been able to convince people to vote against their best interests. Both groups are similar as they're throwing "political tantrum"...just one group IS being heard, the other is still struggling to find a voice.
The fact the teabaggers are dominated by corportists is a very good comparison to Weimar as people's frustrations were used to specific political advantage leading to disastrous results. Unfortunately I expect you (and me) to get jumped on in this thread cause we're not "getting it"...
Cheers...