Occupy Underground
In reply to the discussion: Republican's in Occupy. [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)part of Occupy? Republican's/Third Way are Occupy's opposition. The British were the colonist's opposition. Racists were/are the Civil Rights Movements opposition. Sexists were/are the Women's Movements opposition. Bigots are the LGBIQ movements opposition.
They did not/do not need to incorporate their opposition to effect change.
Occupy is not concerned at this time with directly engaging in the political process. We are still in the process of changing the collective consciousness of the nation and planet.
Changes of the nature that Occupy wishes to bring about cannot be brought about from within the system at this time because the system has been completely compromised by the 1%, and the 1% is not going to act against its own selfish interests to accommodate the wishes of the 99%.
As the system progresses to fail, more and more people will come to the obvious conclusion that the system is hopelessly broken.
Occupy is the alternative. We recognize the lessons of the past, but the 1% has learned how to protect itself from change, by completely taking over the system. So we have to think outside of the box, and use new methods to bring about change.
We are engaging in, and creating new, ways to alter the future so that we can preserve democracy and improve upon it, and save the planet at the same time.