Policy 10/11/2011
Posted by rosshunter on October 10, 2011
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Ross Hunter interesting point about fudging – the one thing you can’t fake is power. Everything else is posture. So what matters if they shift the perception of reality, if we in fact outnumber them then we can win, if not, then not.about an hour ago · ·
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Ross Hunter and power comes from organizing, of course…
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”Critics are quite cross that Occupy Wall Street activists haven’t already come up with a tidy set of demands for change. They’re missing the point. Politics where people draw up a numbered list of requests for someone else to implement, please sir, plainly doesn’t work anymore. The people want to be included at the decision-making table; shockingly enough, they’re demanding to actively participate in their democracy.” BRAVO!!
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Ross Hunter”please sir” – Mary you nailed exactly what nobody cares to say, ever again…this is the huge paradigm shift.
And to Nicholas, with respect, as for electing Democrats: it speaks of electoral maturity – finally – that we are not trying to… elect the same old people who are happiest with second place under the old paradigm, who secretly prefer to lose, in the end, and after token opposition.
We see instead that we need our own representatives, held to new commitments, under new paradigms still being articulated, but none the less real for that.
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Actually the results are already becoming manifest, in the media responses to the action. The mainstream media was forced to look at this action after a week or two of deliberate ignorance – they were out-stared by persistence over time. Th…e situation has opened up for commentators to acknowledge.
But it’s very early – don’t look to congressional action at this stage. You can’t look at this as a power equation in its visible identity at this hour, you have to see the iceberg below the tip.
And you have to see how this one tip has activated all the other icebergs. The environmentalists (who number in the millions of voters) have crossed over and announced solidarity. Likewise the labor movement.
The true, inspiring message of this action is that it shows no sign of being short-lived, or of losing energy, or of fading away. Give it time, my friend, and the watched pot will eventually boil.
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