Every Democratic supporter needs to be out with #Occupy REGISTERING votes.

[TheBigotBasher]

If even 10% of their demands are going to be legislated it will take the reelection of President Obama and a Democratic Congress.

In 2010 the Country elected Teabaggers to "cut spending", the US and the World economy got spending cuts.

In 2012 you have the ability to undo that. IF those who protest get involved. Action means nothing unless it is linked to a Party. The "Tea Party" knows that. They will never work to defeat a Rethug, even one they consider RINO.

#Occupy is the answer to the Tea Party but it must not become a part of the DNC, as the Paultards allowed the Tea Party to be a wholly owned subsidiary of the GOP. It must be allowed to grow as a voice for progressive America. An angry vociferous presence more powerful than the astro-turfed teabaggers.

If you want to pass a public option and fight the cuts agenda, you have your vehicle. Support it, work with it - make it powerful.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. k&r

oh hell yeah. :patriot:

[Pirate Smile]

2. Are they pushing the line that both parties are terrible so forget the ballot? I've read that a few

places and I can't think of a more self-destructive and counterproductive meme to push. I hope that is not true. That is a great recipe to end up with a Congress, White House and Supreme Court fully controlled by the crazy RW Republicans currently running around. I hope that is just a few voices because that is not going to help change things.

I hope they camp out in front of Congress.

[rug]

3. Great idea! Send Geithner there with a clipboard.

[secondwind]

4. I think registering new voters at these protests is a stellar idea!

[NightWatcher]

5. Wow, completely missed the point of OWS. They're sick of BOTH parties

Obama's in bed with Wall St too in their eyes. They're rebelling against the status quo.

[Pirate Smile]

6. That's a great way to end up with a 100% Republican-controlled Congress, Presidency & Supreme Court

That's just fucking brilliant. Tell people voting doesn't matter so then the people who care not one whit about them get to take over everything.

You pressure politicians at the ballot box. You say don't bother voting, then politicians won't give a damn about their grievances.

[TheBigotBasher]

7. Fighting the GOP has become an irrelevance to many on here and FDL.

To them fighting the GOP is QWERTYUIOP. Not registering voters.

[Pirate Smile]

8. So counterproductive that it is staggering. Truly, Republicans should be assisting because it is

just handing them a big ole' present.

[GSLevel9]

9. so they can vote FOR teh Wall Street funded guy, right? nt

[Exilednight]

10. OWS is not looking to be co-opted by an established political party. The reason groups like

the tea party and OWS gain traction is due to the fact that only one out of five Americans (Washington Post poll) believe that one of our current two party system can fix the problems we are seeing.

[Bluenorthwest]

11. A political Party is an accessory, not the main event....

Voting for Obama takes 30 seconds, over a year from now. Oddly, people do not see sitting on their hands as an option for yet another year. Why do you think they should?
Not all political action is tied to a Party. In fact, the best of them are reviled by both Parties until they start winning. If the GLBT movement had waited for the DNC, we'd still be jailed and closeted, I hope you understand that.
When you add the last three years of Obama's rhetoric, most of it about Bipartisanship and the honesty of his Republican friends, it becomes harder to make a case that being with us is the same as being against them. I heard Obama on the radio Friday, again going on about how many Republican ideas are in the jobs bill, how they should like it. Well, BB, if he is courting the GOP, he can not also court OWS as if he did not have a Bipartisan ideology. He does. Those of us who are opposed to Republican policy are not interested in his friendship with Tom 'Lesbians in the Bathrooms' Coburn, nor his abiding intimacy with Rick Warren or Chuck Grassely.
Politicians should be the voice of the people, and yet you demand that it should be the other way around. The people should assemble for massive action, just to support bipartisanship and drones? Does it cross your mind, BB, that the President is opposed to marriage equality, for the same reasons the Republicans are opposed, a religious affectation? OWS is all about equality, not about discrimination, not about claims that some minorities are lacking 'sanctity' that your group has, direct from God.
All that Sacrament, Bipartisan, Coburn is my dear friend stuff adds up. Those who stand with me will not turn to invite hate preachers to their events, as Obama would do, as he did, as he says he will do whenever he feels like it. No, those who stand for equality are not going to start spouting 'one man, one woman' along with the 'faith community' and Obama. Deal with it. Many millions of Americans find that promotion of discrimination to be WRONG, very wrong, and also important, unlike the 'centrists' they do not ask those seeking rights if they got their pony, they do not shout 'poutrage' at those wanting rights equal to their own. They do not say 'it's just one little prayer, just on little song' to defend hateful bigoted messages.
I understand that you thought the rhetoric vanished into thin air to be forgotten, but you are wrong about that. Spend a few years telling me my family is inferior and that Coburn is a good man, and you know what? I lose a bit of trust and affection here and there, as would anybody.
Obama thought he could slander us nonstop without any resultant losses of support. Maybe he's right, maybe he's not, we will find out in just over a year. He decided to stand with the 'defenders of marriage' and he allowed horrible things to be said about my household. He said some of them himself.
So as I do not think God 'sanctifies' Newt Gingrich but not me as Obama insists, we will always have some disagreement. Deal with it. Tell Obama to cut it out if you don't like the results of his words and actions.
Do you think Coburn is a great guy? An honest broker? Do you think God sneers at gay people and celebrates John Ensign and Dave Vitter? If not, tell Obama those things. Tell him you support him in spite of his bigoted views, not because of them.

[bvar22]

12. If you want to get laughed off the streets,

then this is a good idea.

Have you noticed all the "Obama 2012" signs at the protests?
Neither have I.
There IS a good reason.



You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

Solidarity99!
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