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In reply to the discussion: Let's Not Forget OWS... [View all]Summer Hathaway
(2,770 posts)How was the dialogue changed?
There have been tens of thousands of words, spoken and written, about the disparity between the 1% and the 99% for a very long time. If you accept that that dialogue has been ongoing since long before OWS, how did they 'change' that dialogue?
I would quickly agree that OWS took that topic and focused on it as part of their initial raison d'etre. But they neither started that conversation (as many OWSies claim), nor did they change it.
There is the other side of this in that OWS has repeatedly held itself out as non-political - and now they want credit for their contribution to Obama's re-election (or at least some of their supporters do).
The last quote I saw in this election cycle from an OWSie (which was posted here on DU) was that people should vote Romney, so as to speed up the process of citizens being so disgusted with the government they would be moved to do something about it. That doesn't sound like "helping" to change the dialogue in any positive way.