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In reply to the discussion: Occupy's tactics are hurting their message and the left [View all]ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)Its criminal owners are and they ram it down the throats of the 99%. Propaganda works, evidently. Someone in this thread posted some numbers and I've seen others like them. The majority of the nation is progressive to moderate/centrist. The rest - a very loud and illiterate but greedy and sociopathic minority - are conservative.
Re: Occupy and organization - if they had "organization" and "leaders" that simply makes them easy targets, IMO for the criminal owners to toss eggs at them and the movement.
With YouTube, social media, etc. I think they can do a lot to define and portray themselves - do an end-run around the corprat for-profit media which exists solely to catapult the propaganda for the conservative criminal owners.
Of course it would be easier and more convenient if the criminal owners' propaganda ministry would give OWS a platform but they won't. They are conservative. But - the rest of us are mostly, not.
They have a clear set of goals, enumerated multiple times in multiple ways, all boiling down to the fact that the 1% have sucked the political, economic and social life out of the rest of us and we've had enough and we're taking it back. Thus the word "occupy". That's a pretty clear goal, IMO.
But I'm not blinkered by the ministry of propaganda and its "the nation is conservative and OWS has no message" meme.