re: #252 Killgore Trout

I think OWS betrayed its own lack of confidence by not proposing real concrete economic proposals. They intentionally kept things vague because the real solutions were too dull and complicated. It was more important to maintain a leftists party atmosphere rather provide solutions.

They *said* they intentionally kept things vague because blah blah… really, they kept things vague because that twinkle consensus method just doesn’t lend itself to putting forth specific pragmatic action items. I mean, c’mon, Matt Taibbi came up with a great list of specific policy suggestions, so did Bruce Bartlett, so did lots of people. But how do you spent 40 minutes explaining you proposal, from scratch, through the “mic check mic check” crowd repetition?

(and as long as we’re at the OWS portion of the evening, here’s a vid:)

Youtube Video