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Since you mentioned it, I think the underlying theme of the OWS movement is the rampant amount of pandering to special interest and lobbying groups due to campa
by jwingy 15y ago
Since you mentioned it, I think the underlying theme of the OWS movement is the rampant amount of pandering to special interest and lobbying groups due to campaign contributions and other quid pro quo shenanigans. Sure there's other random groups trying to throw in there two cents, but this is the main quibble.
Is this really that hard to understand?
- hugh3 15y agoI think the underlying theme of the OWS movement is the rampant amount of pandering to special interest and lobbying groups due to campaign contributions and other quid pro quo shenanigans Ironically, this also happens to be the underlying theme of the Tea Party movement. Or rather, that's what you get if you ask a sufficiently clever member of either movement to strip down their movement into the most universally-popular motherhood statement they can think of.
- mcantelon 15y agoThat's what the Tea Party says, but the things they back as a whole are, oddly enough, pretty much in line for what corporate lobbyists want. Interesting coincidence, that.
- mcantelon 15y ago"Separation of church and corporation" is one way I've heard that expressed.
- muhfuhkuh 15y ago"Separation of corporation and state" is more like it. Succinct, unburdened, and who really could disagree (aside from corporations and the media appendages who love them).