empath wrote:Again, I'm with Wraith that all this could have turned out better if the organizers had spent an extra week working out some actual talking points and slogans and whatnot BEFORE getting everyone to gather...
Politics is the choice between the reprehensible and the incompetent.
Still, there's something of a poetic irony here. As the message is being distilled a bit (and it is) the basic thrust seems to be debt forgiveness as a major policy tool. If that's so, it's in sharp relief to OWS's counterpart, the Tea Party; Rick Santelli's rant on CNBC was largely credited with sparking them. What prompted his rant? A proposal to forgive some home-loan debt.