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<a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/11/19/heres_what_attempted_co_option_of_ows_looks_like/singleton/">http://www.salon.com/2011/11/19/heres_what_attempted_co_option_of_ows_looks_like/singleton/</a><br><br>"The strength and genius of OWS has been its steadfast refusal to (a)
fall into the trap that ensnared <br>the Tea Party of being exploited as a
partisan tool and (b) integrate itself into the very political
<br>institutions which it’s scorning and protesting."<br><br>" What happens with fundamentally corrupted political systems is that
even well-intentioned candidates <br>— or discrete pieces of legislation
that are good in the abstract — become infected and degraded when
<br>inserted into that system; if you believe that the wealthiest class
anti-democratically controls political <br>institutions (an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/dick-durbin-banks-frankly_n_193010.html" target="_blank">indisputably true premise</a>),
then it makes little sense to expect specific new bills or even
<br>individual candidates inserted into that system to bring about much
change." <br><br> </div></body>
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