WillyT
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:03 PM
Original message |
Poll question: DU Snapshot Poll: At This Particular Moment In Time... |
|
Are you more focused on, supportive of, and concentrating on...
The 2012 Presidential Election...
Or the Occupy Wall Street Movement ???
Just curious as to where the DU focus is right now.
Me... #OWS
:shrug:
|
Fire Walk With Me
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:04 PM
Response to Original message |
1. The #Occupation. It will shape the 2012 election. It is US voting NOW for a better world. |
MH1
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:05 PM
Response to Original message |
2. Truthfully? Staying a) employed and b) sane. |
|
Item b is the reason I'm hanging around DU.
|
orpupilofnature57
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:05 PM
Response to Original message |
3. Elections come & go ,Movements change things. |
|
Edited on Wed Nov-16-11 09:07 PM by orpupilofnature57
This is preventative abolition
|
Warren Stupidity
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:06 PM
Response to Original message |
4. the election offers us a choice between |
|
more of the same, or more of the same only worse. The status quo is unacceptable. OWS offers hope.
|
WillyT
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:08 PM
Response to Reply #4 |
7. + 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!! |
BlueIris
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:07 PM
Response to Original message |
5. Neither, really. But I went with option B. |
|
Because I think what happens next with our political system will be godawful, reflective of the fact that politicians don't care about changing anything in a "real, meaningful" way. OWS at least has the potential to change things for the better eventually, even if it is a disorganized mess at the moment.
|
Kaleko
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Nov-17-11 12:36 AM
Response to Reply #5 |
29. Where you see a disorganized mess, |
|
I see an organically growing mass. A mass movement filled with the fiery intelligence that brings about cultural revolutions.
|
onehandle
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:08 PM
Response to Original message |
6. Senator Elizabeth Warren. nt |
gateley
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:09 PM
Response to Original message |
8. I'm hoping OWS might have an effect on the outcome of the 2012 election. nt |
customerserviceguy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:16 PM
Response to Reply #8 |
|
In the same way Chicago influenced the election in 1968. As long as OWS is seen as peaceful, and only inconveniencing people who go to the heart of big cities, it will not alienate the vast numbers of clueless independent voters who decide who to vote for the weekend before an election.
If it is successfully used by the Repukes as a tool the way that race riots and antiwar protests were used by Nixon and the Republicons in 1968, then we might not like the outcome.
|
gateley
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:23 PM
Response to Reply #10 |
11. My hope is that some of the issues that are brought up might |
|
make the other side pay attention and realize what's being done to us/them. Problem is, the media isn't even acknowledging the issues, just the battles.
|
customerserviceguy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:27 PM
Response to Reply #11 |
14. I hold very little hope |
|
that those who lean towards the tea party will consider the OWS protesters as some sort of messengers. I remember the Vietnam War protests, the mushy middle was more than willing to elect Richard Nixon, with his "secret plan" to end the war, rather than just saying it was time to come home, and save some American lives and treasure.
Why should it be any different this time?
|
gateley
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:54 PM
Response to Reply #14 |
sabrina 1
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:26 PM
Response to Reply #8 |
13. The way they can have an effect, at least one way, is to draw |
|
attention to the money in politics. They can, in each of their towns, list the donations given to candidates by Wall Street, maybe in a full page add, or posters around town, then encourage candidates who are not willing to take Wall Street money, to run against them.
Slogan can be 'is your Representative a Wall Street Candidate?' See here for the answer ... Then ask, 'who do you think this candidate is going to be working for?'
Then issue a challenge to all reps to refuse Wall Street money. Make it a huge issue in this election, make it so that they have to be ashamed, rather than boast as they do now, about taking money from Wall Street.
|
Mojeoux
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Nov-17-11 12:11 AM
Response to Reply #13 |
27. These are good ideas Sebrina 1 ! |
|
Lets make it an issue. "Who owns you?"
|
golddigger
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:13 PM
Response to Original message |
SammyWinstonJack
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:25 PM
Response to Original message |
Raine
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:36 PM
Response to Original message |
15. Actually neither, I'm focusing on my own mess nt |
WillyT
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:41 PM
Response to Reply #15 |
17. Well... Most Of Us Have To Do That... That's The New Normal... |
Raine
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:49 PM
Response to Reply #17 |
18. Yeah, that's true. I'm not doing anything for either but I am paying attention |
|
pretty much equally. I think the occupation is more important though because it's disrupting business as usual. IMO the election is just the same old, same old.
|
unblock
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:39 PM
Response to Original message |
16. the 2012 presidential election is far less interesting than the 2012 CONGRESSIONAL elections |
|
unless something changes, obama's quite likely to be re-elected.
it's the makeup of congress that is likely to determine the shape of obama's second term.
that said, it's all rather distant in political terms, so i'm more focused on ows.
|
femmocrat
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:57 PM
Response to Original message |
20. We need a third choice: the scandals at Penn State. |
|
Dominates the news here in PA.
|
WillyT
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:58 PM
Response to Reply #20 |
evrstrong
(68 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 10:01 PM
Response to Reply #20 |
24. I just want to get away from it, focus on OWS! |
evrstrong
(68 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 09:57 PM
Response to Original message |
21. So far, there aren't any races to get very excited about... |
|
but the Occupy Wall Street Movement might just light a fire under some of these politicians arses.
|
WillyT
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 10:00 PM
Response to Original message |
|
You flatter me so...
:evilgrin:
|
nc4bo
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 10:05 PM
Response to Original message |
Throd
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Nov-16-11 10:07 PM
Response to Original message |
26. Keeping the lights on. |
rbnyc
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Nov-17-11 12:23 AM
Response to Original message |
|
...our elected officials remain unable to represent us.
|
Blue_In_AK
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Nov-17-11 12:46 AM
Response to Original message |
30. Occupy, without question. |
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Tue May 07th 2024, 05:54 AM
Response to Original message |