re: #300 ProLifeLiberal

Well, all I can say is, just as I disagree with OWS comparing themselves to Arab Spring for various reasons, I think it’s a much different situation there than it is here.

For one, Arab Spring is a protest against dictatorial governments. Though we have a nasty history of dictatorial, states rights/white conservative government that would indeed kill you for protesting here, that’s not what OWS is about. Otherwise, they would be occupying government buildings, not Wall Street.

2- Many of those governments/dictatorships are propped up or given a pass by the US

3- Some of those stats you cite, high unemployment, etc., have been the norm in states-righted communities for generations

4- Bringing attention (again) to corporate corruption is the point of action where OWS can have an impact. I think they have succeeded in that, at least for the moment. I also don’t forsee this group, as KT does, somehow becoming a Democratic tea party.

I think that’s a pipe dream for both the anti-Obama left and GOTP ‘12, which doesn’t have ideas to run on, themselves, but that’s just a personal view.