[GPSCC-chat] Here’s what attempted co-option of OWS looks like

[Brian Good]

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/19/heres_what_attempted_co_option_of_ows_looks_like/singleton/

"The strength and genius of OWS has been its steadfast refusal to (a) 
fall into the trap that ensnared 
the Tea Party of being exploited as a 
partisan tool and (b) integrate itself into the very political 

institutions which it’s scorning and protesting."

" What happens with fundamentally corrupted political systems is that 
even well-intentioned candidates 
— or discrete pieces of legislation 
that are good in the abstract — become infected and degraded when 

inserted into that system; if you believe that the wealthiest class 
anti-democratically controls political 
institutions (an indisputably true premise),
 then it makes little sense to expect specific new bills or even 

individual candidates inserted into that system to bring about much 
change." 

 		 	   		  
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