applegrove (50,823 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
So the rich got together and created a market for right wing propaganda at a time
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when there wasn't huge demand for it. But they put money and wedge issues into play, and many people were convinced to vote for this GOP and its right wing views based on hate and fear of others, not on what would be best for them if their feelings had been left unmolested over the years. And the right demanded equal time for their propaganda on the news. They went nuts when a black man was elected president and became the tea party. They no longer cared what their economic self interest was and voted that way. They got what they voted for: no employment and a crashing middle class. Then the OWS (99%) came along and woke people up a little. People took pleasure in being connected with a wider group all of a sudden, to fight for against what truly is hurting them: crony capitalism and crony political economy. And they felt relief at not having to feel hate and fear all the time.
How do get this narrative out there.
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2. I can't go to my local occupy group. I try and talk about occupy with others. I talk about it a lot
online. That is about it.
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4. St. Catherines, Ontario? Another Cannuck? I'm from Ottawa.
Isn't this a great site the DU. I've learnt so much about politics here. And we need to keep up on what is going on in the USA because, if the neocons have their way, Canada is only about two decades behind the US. Most of the seniors I hang around with here are pretty liberal and don't want to see the right wing fantasies play out in Canada. Which is a relief. I think Occupy will reorient the left/centre around the world. We certainly need to bring our A game to politics because the right plays to keep and would have us all living like people in Pakistan live if they had their way.
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6. I don't see the 99% as the descendants of Toronto or Seattle because those events involved riots
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and were not geared to the multiple realities that the 99% represents. Toronto and Seattle were far to the left in their views or trade and such. The 99% doesn't pretend to take one stand of issues like world trade. It focuses more on the inputs & outcomes of politics & policy choices such as the 1% having bought and paid for government that benefits only them. That is why the 99% will make a difference in the world, because it represents as many realities as there are people, not just the platform of the far left.
applegrove (50,823 posts)First of all, how the H*** do get that many posts-even over a period of a few years? Dude..do you even have a job?!! is this all you do, post on DU? Geez Louise, get a girlfriend!
Then the OWS (99%) came along and woke people up a little.
Woke up WHO exactly? I work in a liberal state. The flaming libs never ONCE mentioned OWS. Blocking traffic and pooping in the streets brought awareness to what issue? Oh right, OWS never did agree on what they were protesting. A friendly liberal biased media was unable to report what the fuss was about apart from, "Capitalism Bad! Israel Bad! Fire Bad!"
--The only people woke up was the underbelly of America, the Hippies came out, but that was it. OK a few Unions swelled your ranks for ONE DAY, but they smelled your unwashed bodies and raw sewage, and never came back. Sorry. No one woke up.
People took pleasure in being connected with a wider (Don't you mean, "whiter" group? Where were the minorities?) group all of a sudden, to fight for against what truly is hurting them: crony capitalism and crony political economy.
Crony capitalism, like Obamanomics. Like Wall Street being the number one contributor to the Democtrats and Obama? thats how they got their bailout, right?
And they felt relief at not having to feel hate and fear all the time.
OWS gave them new targets to hate. Bankers, the rich and Jews. Its OK to hate them, right?
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...and were not geared to the multiple realities that the 99% represents.
vote for this GOP and its right wing viewsAbsolute proof this was not written by a DUmpmonkey.
Absolute proof this was not written by a DUmpmonkey.I don't think this particular DUmmie has *learnt* that rule.
No DUmpmonkey would be able to resist adding a stupid apostrophe to "its".
In the DUmp democrat world, an "s" is always, always preceded by an apostrophe.
DUmpmonkeys loooove apostrophes.
I don't think this particular DUmmie has *learnt* that rule.
OWS gave them new targets to hate. Bankers, the rich and Jews. Its OK to hate them, right?...yes, it's on page one of the Obama/Ayers/Marx playbook. They are also #1 on the detain/imprison/kill list on page two of the Obama/Ayers/Marx playbook.
Absolute proof this was not written by a DUmpmonkey.
No DUmpmonkey would be able to resist adding a stupid apostrophe to "its".
In the DUmp democrat world, an "s" is always, always preceded by an apostrophe.
DUmpmonkeys loooove apostrophes.
OWS gave them new targets to hate. Bankers, the rich and Jews. Its OK to hate them, right?
LOL! I saw that myself. This from the most edumacated, smartest, learnted folks on the internets!!
Funny thing is... I usually find the liberal boards, those oh so edumacated, smartest, and bestest folks in the world, with the most grammatical/spelling/etc errors.
At least when I write in WVianese I take pains to make sure the words are spelled correct.
:-) :-)
To quote a local paper, WV "vaporized" Clemson! :yahoo:
I speak a Southwestern VA/Southern WV dialect myself, and I find WVianese almost as easy as my native tongue. Granted, being married to a woman from WV has eased the transition, and I go to her to translate some words I may have trouble with occasionally.I have had to translate a few times for my Yankee husband. My family speaks Western VA and he speaks Connecticut. But even he has started saying that he wasn't born in the south but he got here as fast as he could. :rotf:
I have a cousin, college edjumacated, both parents were teachers, so naturally he's a flaming lib. He is CONSTANTLY posting Media Research crap on our congressman's Facebook account. I had the opportunity to actually talk to the congressman recently, and I asked him about **** ******* and his posts. He said it is some of the funniest stuff he's read, wrong of course, but funny, and he takes it all with a grain of salt, because he knows my cousin didn't vote for him in 2010, and could care less what propaganda he posts to him.
He did ask where cousin was educated, and when I told him, he said: "That explains a lot." :lmao:
In closing: "HOW 'BOUT THEM 'EERS!!!!!!!" :yahoo:
To quote a local paper, WV "vaporized" Clemson! :yahoo: