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CTyankee

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15. well, let me put it this way. Occupy was one step. It is immaterial whether the average voter was

Reply to hack89 (Reply #12)

Thu Apr 24, 2014, 05:27 PM

Apr 2014

aware of them. It happened nonetheless. My question is whether Occupy was just one warning shot in our electorate to register discontent with a rigged system.

Now we have Matt Taibbi's book on the terrible bias in our criminal justice system and the inequality of crime and punishment and the incarceration of so many male minorities vs. the exoneration or at least the lack of any real punishment for those who control the crime.

I'm trying to look at the big picture and put this all in a perspective along an historical timeframe.

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Has the Occupy movement now been vindicated? (poll) [View all] CTyankee Apr 2014 OP

It was suppressed by a centralized coordinated DHS effort. n/t RKP5637 Apr 2014 #1

To the extent it was an expression of rage at the kid gloves the finance folks Benton D Struckcheon Apr 2014 #2

Occupy discussed CLASS - TBF Apr 2014 #3

I think there's a tipping point it almost reached. IMO, that's why DHS infiltrated and undermined RKP5637 Apr 2014 #6

Yup. nt 2naSalit Apr 2014 #17

It helped to put on display, the brutality of the corporate state, Skeeter Barnes Apr 2014 #4

I agree. It was a step, an important step, in a ladder to what has been building all along CTyankee Apr 2014 #8

I don't know about that. Perhaps it was just a beginning. Skeeter Barnes Apr 2014 #10

I have mixed feelings about the Occupy movement. Xyzse Apr 2014 #5

Oh, but we HAVE "personalities" to rally around! warrprayer Apr 2014 #18

It never needed to be vindicated. WilliamPitt Apr 2014 #7

I love how the movement still scares the crap out of the status quo types. Rex Apr 2014 #11

Sorry, but past tense means you don't know it is still ongoing. Rex Apr 2014 #9

An invisible behind the scenes social movement hack89 Apr 2014 #12

well, let me put it this way. Occupy was one step. It is immaterial whether the average voter was CTyankee Apr 2014 #15

Occupy is but one of several threads in American culture hack89 Apr 2014 #20

I disagree. I think these are all threads of the same yarn basically...that of income inequality.... CTyankee Apr 2014 #22

Time will tell. Nt hack89 Apr 2014 #23

They've TOTALLY Changed The Narrative... WillyT Apr 2014 #13

Not really, since it was about 35 years late ... frazzled Apr 2014 #14

Yes, but I think Occupy was a REMINDER for people to sit up and take notice. It happened BECAUSE CTyankee Apr 2014 #16

The last gasp of democracy warrprayer Apr 2014 #19

It is still an ongoing necessity. Zorra Apr 2014 #21