Re: [RC] Occupy Protests' Seismic Effect

[David R. Block]

Title: ORourke1 Signature

Except that it is regulated,  not unregulated, just about everywhere. David "Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine."--P. J. O’Rourke On 10/17/2011 10:22 AM, Chris Hahn wrote: “Today’s Wall Street protests represent the left’s decoupling from Obama and the Democratic Party, something that the global nature of the movement will only reinforce. That doesn’t mean the movement has a clear critique of unregulated capitalism yet, let alone a concrete agenda for reform, but it means that the left finally is forcing those questions onto the public agenda. By confronting Wall Street, it is creating the populist energy that Obama himself has not.”   http://news.yahoo.com/occupy-protests-seismic-effect-062600703.html   I still don’t know what to make of the “occupy” movement, but I thought this was interesting.   “This past weekend, in 900 cities across the world, tens of thousands demonstrated against unregulated capitalism.”   The link in the sentence above leads to an article about anarchists taking over the protests in Rome.   Whatever the occupy movement represents, it is tapping into something that activates a grass roots constituency.  Like the tea party in its roots days, this is a movement that cannot be ignored.    Chris         -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org