[quote=KSMountain]There’s already a Green party, right? OWS could hijack that and get some real candidates going. They could propose some legislation and some platform planks. if Michael Moore and the SEIU ponied up say 5% of their wealth, they’d have some real advertising/campaign funds behind them.[/quote]
If the system is broken and rigged – does it make sense to stay within the system.
Look at the civil rights movements and free speech movements of the 60’s – it was messy. All sorts of press coverage about the dirty hippies not staying quiet and those uppity dark people who weren’t satisfied with status quo. Sometimes you have to make noise and work OUTSIDE the political party system to get real change.
If there hadn’t been protests, marches, free speech assemblies in violation of the wishes of the powers that be – the civil rights movement would not have happened.
I remember my parents clucking at the nightly news about the riots in Berkeley. More so because my mom had a part-time gig with her former sorority and was the adult in charge of her sorority houses in CA. She had to deal with the riots in Berkeley and later Watts – as it affected some of her students. (She had one student arrested and another caught up, and injured)
Change is often messy. Especially when the change requires some structural shifts. It seems like the underlying message of the OWS movement is that the political and financial systems are rigged to benefit the few. That we socialize losses on the masses, and privatize the gains among the elite. It will take structural changes to fix that. And that involves working outside of the system that is rigged against the many.
