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In reply to the discussion: Let's Not Forget OWS... [View all]Summer Hathaway
(2,770 posts)I can tell you that I don't know of a single person who was unaware of the disparity between the 1% and the 99% before Occupy was ever even thought of.
I also know of no one who ever said, "I was totally unaware that the guy who owns the company I work for makes way more money than I do," or, "Until Occupy came along, I always assumed that the CEO of the corporation that employs me was living paycheck to paycheck, just like me."
If you go back through the DU archives - or those of any other political website - you will find post after post by people discussing this very issue long before OWS was ever launched. You will also find article after article about how CEOs and stockholders were reaping millions while the middle-class workers (whose labor made the profits by which the 1% enriched themselves) were well known long before September 2011.
You seem to want to believe that no one was aware of the facts until OWS came along and enlightened them. The citizenry is not as dumb as you seem to think they are - or were before OWS. And that's not because they were politically aware - it's because they were living with the consequences of that disparity on a daily basis. No one needed OWS to tell them the facts - they already knew them. Probably better than most.