Leave town for a week and look what happens. Our corporatist media is finally paying some attention to Occupy Wall Street. Not that it is offering many insights. The prevailing characteristics seem to be that protesters are malevolent malcontents, dirty fucking hippies, and anarchists, all in a stew of disorganized resentment. In particular, the claim is that the OWS protesters do not have a coherent message.
No coherent message? Really? Anyone who cannot immediately grasp the significance of the protest is likely to be uninformed teabaggers, fearful of all that they don't understand, or class warriors, like the Republican presidential candidates, Romney and Cain in particular.
How obtuse, or ideologically rigid, do you have to be to not see that America's wealthy corporatist media is determined to delegitimize citizens who have decided to fight back against Wall Street's recklessness?
Here is Alan Grayson taking the small amount of time needed to explain to dickhead PJ O'Rourke what the Occupy Wall Street protests are all about.
The privileged class is letting its fear show. Nice to see we got their attention.
At last, the people speak out on Wall Street and social injustice. How long have we had our collective heads in the sand? Let's hope that the emergent leadership underwrites common sense and the value of higher education.
ReplyDeleteWhy, indeed, have Americans been so passive? But I do not expect change from our leaders. There is no FDR in sight. Change usually comes from the bottom; civil rights, Viet nam, women's sufferage. This will be no different.
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