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They are in fact also protesting against the merger of big business and politics. They are thus demanding an end to big money like the example you gave into pol
by Andrew_Quentin 15y ago
They are in fact also protesting against the merger of big business and politics. They are thus demanding an end to big money like the example you gave into politics.
I do not think this is necessarily a democrat's protest. This is a people's protest, the 99%.
- Shivetya 15y agoYet now they are being co-opted by a larger group, which many of us watching this unfold fully expected to happen. What makes it more galling is that many of those from the unions are in no shape or form middle class with very high incomes and high retirement payouts. The protesters we see now will have a difficult time not getting pushed aside by the machine. What the unions/DNC could not create they certainly can take.
- r4vik 15y agofunny thing is that the same thing happened to the Tea Party, who got taken over by RNC community organisers. So out whet the pro-drugs, pro-immagration and pro-choice, and in comes the Christian Taliban under a new banner.
- srdev 15y agoThe motto of OWD is "We are the 99%." Despite having good benefits, I doubt very much that union members are in the top 1%.
- r4vik 15y agoThis reminds me of a quote: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville
- tokenadult 15y agoThe quotation you mention was not said by de Tocqueville: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#Misattributed http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#Misattrib... http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler#Unsourced http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler#Unsourc...
- roc 15y agoWhich sounds nice, but doesn't seem to account for all the voting for austerity and smaller government that we've seen in Western democracies.