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In reply to the discussion: Occupy's tactics are hurting their message and the left [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Some people object to OWS. Some people love it. I love it and so do all my friends.
Just because some guy on TV or some overweight middle-class know-it-alls don't get it . . . .
When people complain about OWS's tactics, ask them what tactics OWS should be using.
We voted for Obama. Look where it got us. Same place we were before.
I support OWS. Closing down the ports at least got some attention.
The ports symbolize the greed of the rich. They are pushing imported junk on us, have bought solid American businesses like Maytag (I still use my pre-1985 Maytag washerl) and hired slaves overseas to make cheap versions of them and then bring them to our ports and into our stores.
We end up jobless, impoverished and in serious debt to the rich.
And then the rich through their corporations inundate us with propaganda such as the stuff being spewed here about how OWS tactics are unpopular.
We raise our voices here on DU, but we are not heard by those who make the decisions. OWS's goal is to be heard, to be noticed. They are achieving that. They are causing people to think.
That is a vast improvement over the nonsense forced upon people by CNN and Fox News and the other networks.
A little annoyance can do a lot of good. Ask any child under 6 months.