3 Signs Anti-Wall Streeters Are Succeeding

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/3_signs_anti-wall_streeters_are_succeeding_20111030/?ln

We may be reaching an inflection point, the moment when the terms of the political argument change decisively. Three indicators: An important speech by Rep. Paul Ryan, the increasingly sharp tone of President Obama’s rhetoric, and the success of Occupy Wall Street in resisting attempts to marginalize the movement.

The most telling was Ryan’s address at the Heritage Foundation last week. House Republicans regard Ryan as their prophet, their intellectual and their resident wonk. Usually, he carefully lays out the numbers and issues visionary promises of how cutting government (and taxes on the wealthy) will lead us down a blissful path to prosperity. He’s sunny when everyone else is grumpy.

So it was jarring to see Ryan used as the principal counterattacker against the president’s efforts to make the injuries of class inequality clear, and to describe the costs of the Republicans’ just-say-no strategy in Congress.

Ryan spoke of his “disappointment” that “the politics of division are making a big comeback.” He accused Obama of using “divisive rhetoric” and of “going from town to town, impugning the motives of Republicans, setting up straw men and scapegoats, and engaging in intellectually lazy arguments.”

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That's all they've got.

was to focus on it. Which is what the Occupy movement did.

It is SO obvious that "trickle down" doesn't work that almost anyone who has eyes can see it. But the ones who WERE focusing on it (anticapitalists) were marginalized and the ones who SHOULD have been focusing on it (the Dems) had bought into it. So it took an outside group (the OCCUPY movement) to force the issue.

:)