On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> On 2011-12-31, at 11:54 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> ...there'd probably be no Occupy without him (Obama).
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> I'd say the Occupy movement had little to do with Obama except that he presided over the recession which was ultimately responsible for it. The movement was triggered by the public sector union protests in Wisconsin and Ohio and the Arab Spring. I question that there would be no Occupy or something like it without Obama - that is, if McCain had instead won the 2008 election and the Republicans had formed the government.
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> In fact, the movement might well have appeared earlier.
I'm not sure about that. A lot of the kids involved were very active in the Obama campaign and were mightily disappointed. Much of the left-of-center pop would be whining about how awful the Reps are and how we need a Dem back in the WH. There's nothing like a Dem pres to underline how The System sucks.
Doug