re: #121 freetoken

The impression I’m getting is that there is a great deal of jockeying going on by the powers that be, in the machinery of the political parties as well as the big lobbying groups (industry/field specialities that actively work the DC circuit) to play clean-up for the coming elections, with the idea of how to package the Presidential candidate (of their choice) to the general American public and not the small vested groups that have been doing the core work, the so called “base”.

When a fad/fashion comes into style the people at the top of the social ladder want to project that they are part of the current wave. OWS is hot right now, and special interests are trying to steer the direction to support their longer term objectives. This is pretty standard, such as the Kochs working on general angst among older white folk right after the 2008 election - they knew they (and their allies) could steer that angst to their own benefit.

Because of so many people being unemployed for such a length of time, and because so many young people have been unable to find their first “real” job, there is a great deal of discomfort out there in America. That gives the power-brokers fuel with which to work, and we’re seeing now with OWS this or that pundit/think tank/interest saying “OWS is this…” or “OWS is that…”, in order to try to reap the most out of the ground truth (of many disillusioned Americans.)

I’m quite jaded by it all, and that is one reason why I’m not caring one way or another how the OWS “story” is being played out.

If the economy doesn’t show signs of obvious life, and Romney gets the nomination, the Teafreaks are the President’s best hope. If they stay home or go with third parties, the GOP wastes the crisis they have nurtured.