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If you dig through their website, it looks like the common theme is "get money out of government", which is a rather vague goal and doesn't explain much. Assum
by dissident 15y ago
If you dig through their website, it looks like the common theme is "get money out of government", which is a rather vague goal and doesn't explain much.
Assuming they mean political finance regulations, who objectively determines when the goals are met? What kind of specific regulations do they want? You can't find this information anywhere.
This is more of a symbolic protest than a redress of grievances. People who have no idea how to solve problems and want one person to solve them all because they're holding up traffic in New York.
- sliverstorm 15y agoSilly thing about "getting money out of the government" is, where exactly do you think that money comes from anyway?
- jbooth 15y agoDid you see how a few months ago there was a patent carve-out explicitly for wall st firms because one company was causing them a bunch of trouble? That wasn't patent reform on the merits, that was 'the money' and where it comes from.
- danenania 15y agoI think the idea is to go out and try to do something proactive instead of sitting on one's ass and smugly criticizing from one's keyboard. The US government is corrupt as hell. I'm not sure how anyone could see large numbers of people demonstrating against this corruption as anything but a positive development for our civilization. As any number of past movements have shown, the particulars of the message aren't what's important early on, it's getting people out of their houses and convincing them that they actually have power to create change.