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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 10 years ago

Do the OWS really want a better America?

The Occupy Wall Street crowd says that it represents "the 99 percent." But what percentage of this movement really wants a better life for the people of this country who have been hurt by the economic policies of the current administration? Is it the 45 percent who recently told pollsters that they feel capitalism "can't be saved"? Or the 35 percent who said that the U.S. government is "no better than al Qaeda"? Or the 31 percent willing to engage in violence to support its agendas?

Is it the members of the Communist Party USA who helped organize the OWS demonstrations in Los Angeles and received a loud ovation when they addressed the OWS demonstrators in Chicago? Or the members of the American Nazi Party who supports the OWS movement because some protestors have a similar view about the evil of "Jew bankers"?

No, the "99 percent" does not represent the majority. Not even close. It is the same small fraction of leftists who have been looking for a vehicle to launch a fatal attack on the foundations of America since the 1960s. But the media are buying their story about representing middle America, and Barack Obama and the Democrats are cynically using them to further the class warfare they are waging. .

David Horowitz

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago
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    Their STATED goals are identical to those promulgated by America's self-identified enemies - which is why they're financed and organized BY those people.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Gee, this question reflects the low mind and absence of empathy of the questioner, how previous are you 10? I wager you would be singing a distinctive track as we drag you as much as the guillotine. For a initiate, zoo animals deserve first rate habitation and should not be taken out of our environment they're used to. As for OWS protesters, why are you so frightened of them? demanding we can ultimately get you????

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    OWS movement is being driven by hard core anarachist, These subversives are

    only interested in tearing down a system not building or sustaining one. The

    OWS movement needs to be ended across America. Send these weak kids

    home to mommy and daddys basement. And lets move on.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    Yes. I am confidant that every American - Tea Party or OWS - wants a better America. I can disagree with their ideas for getting us there but I don't doubt the sincerity behind their motivation.

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  • 10 years ago

    Not just for America but for a better world, assuming America is a superpower still. Nonetheless, people are basically had had enough of governments being "contracted" or "controlled" by the individuals who have their own agenda. When Americans vote for their politicians, these politicians do not return the favor to the people but instead to the institutions who gave them campaign money.

  • beren
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    "But what percentage of this movement really wants a better life for the people of this country who have been hurt by the economic policies of the current administration? "

    Who has been hurt by this administration? Corporate profits up, stock market up 50% since the administration came in, unemployment has leveled off since the free fall since the last administration. (but it does need to get better)

  • 10 years ago

    They are useful idiots for the left-wing media which gives them more advertising space

    than they gave Tea Party demonstrations.

    It's to be expected.

    The vast majority of "protesters" are young dolts infiltrated, as you point out,

    by left-wing scum.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    They just want more freebies, and are pissed that their doctorate in romantic languages won't give them a job paying $100k with full bennies.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    they represent themselves and the ones who pay them to be there, what they say and do are not the same thing, they all cry about big corporations and greed, while they pound away on there macbooks, ipads and talk on there iphones. they don't look poor in any way from the way they are dressed. they are your typical hypocrites and lie like a rug

  • ?
    Lv 4
    10 years ago

    They want the world handed to them off the back of hard working Americans.

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