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You're a gun guy, you should get this!
Whatever their agenda is, it's going to play out whether we are mealy mouthed or whether we're smashing every window in sight. We chose to not lay down and take it.
I think you gun guys always say something like "From my cold dead hands"? We won't be violent but we won't get out of the way of their authoritarian agenda, so I say...They will only take my liberty from my cold dead hands.
Originally posted by sonnny1
OWS polarizes the rest of America,when they lump certain groups,into the haves and the have nots........
Originally posted by seabag
…and you’ll play right into their hands because you DON’T HAVE THE NUMBERS to accomplish the mission!
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The problem is that some of us are still holding out hope for this coming election!!!! If things don’t change after the POTUS is dethroned then I’ll be ready for some HOPE AND CHANGE myself!!
I'm afraid he won't be dethroned, he's become the champion of psycho-capitalism
Yes I just made a new word lol. It's a good word too.
You do realize that OWSers are just people exactly like you who simply had a shorter fuse for giving up on elections, right?
And that if you gave up that same silly misguided "hope" that got Obama elected in the first place, there WOULD be numbers great enough to make a difference, right?
In your scenario, you'll be laughing at the OWSers being taken down this spring and summer, then wondering why no one is around to help you make that "change" when you're finally ready for it this fall.
Romney's not going to save us, man, and Ron Paul will never get the nomination, delegates or not. It's over. Let's band together while we still can. You don't need to join OWS, but don't stand idly by hoping yet another election is going to change things. Let's all wake up and put our boots on.
Originally posted by 00nunya00
.....but that was your first (and only) post in this thread.
We do not propose to say that there shall be no rich men. We do not ask to divide the wealth. We only propose that, when one man gets more than he and his children and children's children can spend or use in their lifetimes, that then we shall say that such person has his share. That means that a few million dollars is the limit to what any one man can own."
They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side, but no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen."
You do realize that OWSers are just people exactly like you who simply had a shorter fuse for giving up on elections, right
Originally posted by seabag
Like I said…wait until after the elections! It’s not just the presidential throne up for grabs! Congress holds the power of the people (if they do their jobs). If the power in congress doesn’t change hands then there’s NO HOPE for the rest of us (the one’s holding out right now)! Give it a few months before you get baited into a battle you can’t win! I can assure you the numbers will be there after November if the tide doesn’t turn!
People like me, you dont want me at your protest. I dont do civil.
Time comes I wont be singing Kumbaya or Imagine.
Originally posted by seabag
And that if you gave up that same silly misguided "hope" that got Obama elected in the first place, there WOULD be numbers great enough to make a difference, right?
NO…the numbers came about BECAUSE OF Obama…he was the proverbial “straw” that broke the camel’s back.
In your scenario, you'll be laughing at the OWSers being taken down this spring and summer, then wondering why no one is around to help you make that "change" when you're finally ready for it this fall.
On the contrary, SIR, I’m the one trying to get OWS to see the error in their ways and wake them up! If they would think this through they would actual conduct PEACEFUL protest and not be sucked into a battle they will inevitably lose!
Like I said…wait until after the elections! It’s not just the presidential throne up for grabs! Congress holds the power of the people (if they do their jobs). If the power in congress doesn’t change hands then there’s NO HOPE for the rest of us (the one’s holding out right now)! Give it a few months before you get baited into a battle you can’t win! I can assure you the numbers will be there after November if the tide doesn’t turn!
Originally posted by seabag
Maybe if they dropped the pinko-commie-class warfare-union-welfare-free college-free healthcare CRAP we’d be on board.
I don't think you got my point; I know OWS happened because of Obama policies, but I was comparing your hope for the elections with the hope that got Obama elected. I'm saying they're both misguided senses of hope.
Again, I think you're missing my point. You're saying (as you do in the quote below) that if there's no change in congress after the elections, then people will be ready for that battle---but I'm saying that those of you who are holding out hope will be taking to the streets too late. If you had taken to the streets a few months earlier, you would have seen the numbers you need to win, but if you wait until the first wave of resistance is crushed, your own wave of finally-angry people will meet the same fate for the same reasons.
But come the day after the elections, there will be already be someone swearing that next time will be different. It won't; it never is. You think having a GOP trifecta will restore sanity to this government?
Originally posted by 00nunya00
Originally posted by seabag
Maybe if they dropped the pinko-commie-class warfare-union-welfare-free college-free healthcare CRAP we’d be on board.
Well, at least you acknowledge they know what they're protesting about!