In The USA: the Next Revolution

[Dayuhan]

I suppose I'd go with OWS, mainly because I side with them on social issues. I think OWS is in the right place, directing anger at the right people, but I have doubts that any good solution is going to come from the movement directly.

I don't think they have a clue, and they're directing all of the anger at 1/3 of the problem. They also have no idea what they want, beyond a vague laundry list of left mantras. Certainly not likely that any good solution will emerge from there... to the extent that the Democratic arty feels they have to pander to them in the same way that the Republicans feel they have to pander to the tea party, they could actually increase the polarization that'x creating so much of the trouble... as usual, good solutions won't come from the extremes.

With almost 8 million jobs lost to the crisis, I don't think you'd have to look very hard...

Of course I buy into the idea that the corporations who offered loans they knew would not be repaid, then lied about the value of those loans in order to sell them to investors, caused the crisis. I honestly didn't think that was up for debate.

Surely you don't think that's all there was to it, or that these events emerged from some sort of vacuum...

It tells me we need to vote out incumbents on both sides of the aisle. Beyond that, I don't really see anything to choose from between the behavior of politicians and the behavior of corporate officers.

What makes you think the new incumbents are going to be any better, as long as Americans keep voting for whoever's best at propping up scapegoats and doling out feelgood promises? That includes people like OWS and the tea party... it's all their fault, get them under control and everything will be ok...