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So, if I'm hearing you right, Henry, they should just pack up and go home yes?
Maybe when they get home they can bend over the kitchen table and just take the almighty buttfucking their country is delivering to them, without complaint.
Or just stock up on tinned food and opt out of the race entirely.
What they are doing is expressing the anger and dismay currently felt by millions of ordinary Americans who've seen their economy and natinal happiness broken, and left shattered on the roadside by a class who claim not to exist as such, and who see themselves as citizens of corporate entities not nation states.
They haven't an agreed message? Well, hell, stick 10 Republicans, or 10 Democrats in a room together and you'll get 15 political messages from each group. They haven't changed anything? Nothing moves fast in the basic structures of society, even with the combined weight of the political and finacnial classes, it takes years and even decades to effect real change, why would you expect a citizen protest to have provoked concrete change in the short term?
OWS is a grassroots movement borne of anger and riding a wave of events. It doesn't need a unified message. It just needs to sustain its energy and anger and draw more people into the conversation. It is serving its purpose.
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