I have seen three surveys so far. The results were 51%, 57% and 43% support for the Occupy Movement. All together, that’s 50%. Not bad at all. Obama probably ought to get behind this more than he has, but his best friend Rahm Emanuel in Chicago called out the cops. I believe that the Tea Party movement only has about 20% support. Support for Occupy was at 54%, but apparently due to relentless attacks, it is dropped down to 50% in the last poll. The Wall Street Journal says that Occupy only has 30% support, but that is probably not accurate.
The right wing, especially Fox News, is really pulling out all the stops to take down this movement.
The US labor movement really needs to get behind Occupy in a big way. I would also love to see the major US women’s organizations like NOW and the big Black and Hispanic movements like the NAACP and La Raza get behind it too. I understand there is a group of US Marines called Occupy Marines. Great! Spread it to the armed forces.
And I believe that there is an Occupy movement in the New York City police. At the very least, they have been refusing orders to take down the occupation. Great! This is what we need to see. Cops siding with the working and middle classes against the rich and the bosses. That’s when a real movement starts.
Right now, the movement is dominated by the hard Left. That needs to broaden out, as it’s turning a lot of more moderate folks off.
One thing that the Occupy movement has done is to change the national conversation. It was all about the deficit and how we need to destroy what’s left of government to deal with our debt. The Left was on the defensive every day from the relentless deficit hawks. That’s pretty much gone now. Now it’s the Occupy movement that it’s in the press.
And the Right, for once in ages, is on the defensive, instead of us! Great! The national conversation is now about how the banks, the rich and the corporations screwed the working and middle classes and the nation itself. Do you agree or disagree? Great question! This is forcing working and middle class people to either side with the class or go over and line up with their rich class enemies as they’ve been doing for decades now.
And for the first time in 30 years, we are starting to see some serious cracks in the mass movement of working and middle class people, mostly Whites, who have been siding with their rich class enemies.
It just goes to show that Americans are not immune to the laws of history as laid down by us Marxists. Nor is history over. History’s never over, that’s just a utopian rich man’s dream. The rich can only screw their class enemies so much and for so long. All societies have a breaking point, and given enough attacks for long enough, sooner or later, working and middle class people will wake up from their slumber and defend their class interests as history predicts they will.
This is a radical movement with modest aims, but it never should have gotten off the ground. It’s hated by our entire elite class, and the whole of the business community, especially the corporations, and the corporations own the politicians. The enitrety of the US corporate media is dead set against it, and a relentless campaign has been going on for a while to kill the Occupy movement.
But for the first time in what seems like forever, the American sheep are no longer listening. They are disobeying their media, elite, corporate and political masters. They are seizing their own destiny and refusing to listen to the brainwash. They are thinking for themselves, connecting the dots. They are starting to get it.
The Occupy movement really has next to no one on its side. All it has is a message, and even the pitifully brainwashed American sheeple can see that it makes sense.
There is hope after all. That’s all we can say so far, but at least it’s something.
The Left will succeed if it defines itself as the movement of people who want jobs, but can’t get them. Not if it’s about the people who can get a job, but don’t want one.
Jon Stewart had a great editorial…just a visual really…
the tear gas and rubber bullets at night in Oakland looking like a scene out of Syria…and contrasted in with the Washington Post’s photo the next day, sun up and a Cop bending over to pet a little kitty….
Regardless what age/politics/country you identify with, surely you recognize in that contrast of “News Stories” the real problem… the transfer of wealth – (yes, the largest transfer of wealth, ever in history, taken from the middle and lower classes and given to the wealthy )- isn’t a problem for the wealthy…they want to see that photo of a cop petting a kitty. The protesters aren’t going away, they have nowhere to go.
I saw that. Propaganda at it’s finest.
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I went to the occupy LA protest. More or less the “Pacifica” crowd. Organized labor needs to be heavily involved, and the protests have to go after Wall street. Not things like gay rights for transgendered Native American pot users. That is just going to screw the pooch…
Aren’t some protestinf for the right to screw pooches.
Yes, some are. That is why I went. To show my support.
Yeah, I went by an Occupy LA meeting a few weeks back at City Hall and was rather disappointed. A were a lot of 9/11 “truther” people. I was really put off by that. I think back east you have more moderate and focused people joining in. But here it seems to still be all hardcore lefties that nobody is going to listen to anyway. I still support them though.
@ Tulio
Really? Damn, are people still into this 9/11 truther shit?
I saw video of the Occupy Wall Street rally marching and I was impressed. It looked to be a pretty normal crowd. Out here in LA, not so sure.
This is what I want:
A movement where Tulio would feel right at home!
In the best of all possible worlds, a movement where BAG would feel at home too, but that’s not really a possibility.
If they stick to the economic message and stay away from all these other things that have nothing to do with Wall Street like 9/11 conspiracies and gay issues and amnesty for illegals, I’d be 100% there. I still am behind the movement, I just find that aspect of it to be a turnoff.
@ Tulio
If they stick to the economic message and stay away from all these other things that have nothing to do with Wall Street like 9/11 conspiracies and gay issues and amnesty for illegals, I’d be 100% there.
Co-sign!
I’m all for the American left, as long as it sticks to economic issues.
If you want to learn a lot more about Wall Street’s machinations while enjoying a few laughs watch, Max Keiser Report at YouTube or at his website (maxkeiser.com). Max, an ex-Wall Street broker and analyst, can act demented at times but he’s a very sharp and knowledgeable guy and very supportive of Occupy Wall Street or what he calls the Global Insurrection Against Banker Occupation (GIABO).
Not only has the movement been talked about much on CNN and MSNBC, but they have also been discussing the growing gap between rich and poor over the last 30 years and how almost all the prosperity is going to the top. After those latest CBO numbers dropped last week it’s been getting lots of attention. That’s great too.