(reply to MM too) wrote:

Okay, what DID get accomplished by Occupy Wall Street, nearly 5 year later? That's the problem with activism today, thinking "raising awareness" is enough when it's barely step 1. The social media crowd gets bored and moves on to the next fad.

Sanders' approach is what the political reaction should have been? Can you point out any specifics on that? I point back to TARP where his "I get everything I want in a perfect bill or I don't play ball, regardless of what it does to the country" approach would have screwed a ton of people just to make a point. Should politicians have refused any health care bill short of a European universal coverage dream? A ton of people would now be dead still waiting, including laudablepuss. Is his liver worth your uncompromising stance?

Vested Id wrote:

It's a special kind of mind control to associate having wits with playing ball, and being outraged with stupidity. Call it the Barzini Point of No Return, where you pivot from being sickened by a moral universe to being a conspirator in it.

This is odd considering you and Bernie supporters are associating playing ball with corruption. Real life isn't Mr Smith Goes to Washington, where whoever throws the most moving tantrum magically fixes everything.

Most people don't know how hard it is to pass something in Washington, and all the hard work that goes into it.

It's extremely easy to look at someone like Barney Frank and start Body Snatchers yelling at him for being a corrupt traitor, but the man knows how the game is played and that work involved in making things better isn't run purely on outrage and believing hard enough.

Here's an account...