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In reply to the discussion: Let's Not Forget OWS... [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Bush's former donors have 'switched to Obama'. And many people applauding that news. I remember feeling pretty uneasy about it at the time, but put it aside.
Anyone who was aware of the buying of our electoral system by Big Corps should not be happy that they are buying OUR party also. Our party should be working to change the laws that permit this.
Political junkies did know of the poisonous influence of money on elections, and many of them were becoming aware of the huge income disparity. But the message was not consolidated until OWS condensed it into easily remembered and understood sound bites.
To deny that is to deny reality. Wall Street certainly understood it which is why they spent money to try to drown out their message, but failed.
This movement didn't start here in the US. We were late to the game, but once it did, it spread rapidly which shows that there was a need for a coordination of what people individually knew, but had not been successful in putting into action.
NY State US Attorney Schneiderman credited OWS for giving him the public backing he needed from the people to resist the pressure on him to make a deal with the Banks that would left wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners with no option to get justice for the wrongs done to him.
I think he knows the power they had to bring attention to something Wall Street preferred to settle behind closed doors. I will take his word for the impact they have had.