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Occupy Underground

applegrove

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7. Occupy appealed to over 50 % of the population. That included many moderates and these

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Reply #6)

Wed Jan 30, 2013, 10:03 PM

Jan 2013

professionals. Then the next occupy events were more in tune with the left wing gripes. They were not only about inequality and the rich buying government anymore. They were anti trade and anti capitalist. That is why they lost support. Thankfully Obama made room for the moderates in the democratic party so they had a place to go if you liked a mixed market system of economics but didn't want plutocrats to get undue power. Occupy shut these moderates out.

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"Occupy Protesters: Professional and Well Educated" [View all] applegrove Jan 2013 OP

Co-Author of New Occupy Study: Media Misled by Harping on Household Salaries limpyhobbler Jan 2013 #1

It was obvious that the elite can not tolerate anything that looks like rebellion. rhett o rick Jan 2013 #2

So many of these writers have no clue. Lady Freedom Returns Jan 2013 #3

In Minneapolis nearly all that were over 18 were in college... Kalidurga Jan 2013 #4

"No one is the right subject to revolt" zbdent Jan 2013 #5

If OWSers were portrayed correctly from the beginning, the movement would have grown. Fire Walk With Me Jan 2013 #6

Occupy appealed to over 50 % of the population. That included many moderates and these applegrove Jan 2013 #7

Abuse of capitalism resulted in the income inequality OWS fights. It's getting to the heart of the Fire Walk With Me Jan 2013 #8

My point exactly. Abuse of capitalism. But that is not what it said on Occupy's applegrove Jan 2013 #10

The sans-culottes of the French Revolution were not abjectly poor DBoon Jan 2013 #9