Reply #18: I would suggest starting your own movement if you feel that your ideas [View All]

[Zorra]

are not being accepted by the majority of participants in, and supporters of, OWS.

Repeating memes that originated in RW think tanks and got spread by MSM will not help your case.

Many of us are Democrats who watched with outrage as our party got co-opted and neutralized when the DLC/Third Way insidously wormed its way in and altered the ideology and processes of the party so that it now represents the 1% and not the majority of the American people.

The movement has clear goals. They have been repeated ad nauseum to the point of utter exasperation.

Many of us believe that the political system is compromised. OWS is an alternative process for attaining necessary changes.

Use the Democratic Party if you want to try to effect change through status quo politics.

And good luck with that.

This is an excellent piece written by DU member Will Pitt. If you read it, and can comprehend it, you will have a much better understanding of why OWS is not exactly what you seem to want it to be:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2329881&mesg_id=2329881