wutang wrote:Maddog wrote:I think it is already co-opted. One of the orginizers os Van Jones, Obama's "Green" Czar. It's a good way to deflect blame away from the administration and blame it on something else.
Its still to early to be saying thats it has been co-opted - as reflected by the MSM (both left and right) pontificating about how pointless the protests are because they have no leadership or concrete demands. Even squeaky voiced douchebag Sean Hannity said that the message being sent out is too 'incoherent'. If it had descended into astro-turf faux-social movement it would resemble more the Tea Party, which has a very clear top-down organised structure, whereas instead the 'occupy...' protests have come about in a spontaneous manner, its started with a hashtag on twitter, with the people taking to the street for the sake of expressing their frustration with the way things are going, this doesnt automatically mean that they have a clear idea of what and how they wanna bring about change. That is gonna be the key to how the protests develops in the coming weeks
This doesnt rule out that certain groups and people are currently trying to direct it - as the analysis I posted before stated the support of people like Soros, and the politicians you pointed out, are trying to make sure that they dont become a threat to capitalism, instead directing the energy and frustrations of the people into more established (i.e stale) avenues of mainstream politics, which is what the Tea Party was about.
Of course if the problem was rife in 2007 it could only be those in charge. Even GWB admitted he left the economy in a poor state after such a huge surplus.