Reply #8: A different take [View All]

[Danse]

I agree with the thread title, not the body -- or at least I would have, until recently. Here is Glen Ford's take --

"It is doubtful that there would have been an Occupy Wall Street phenomenon, as we have experienced it, if President Obama had not lost his last stitch of emperors clothes this past spring and summer. His abject subservience to the “market’s” (Wall Street’s) demands that the budget deficit take priority over human needs – a logic that would necessitate the gutting of virtually every social program of the New Deal and the Great Society, including Social Security – broke the heart of every left-liberal Obamite, and every Black person that was not still drunk on ObamaL’aid. His 2008 activist base watched as Obama pleaded with Republicans to accept his $4 trillion budget cut “Grand Bargain” that would roll back a lifetime of social safety nets. The “progressive’s” champion became the star in their nightmare. This is what their votes had bought them: a total disaster.

And then the OWS folks gave them a movement."

http://www.africaspeaks.com/reasoning/index.php?topic=7686.0