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Forum Post: LOGICAL Approach - Reason over chaos.

Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 7, 2011, 4:03 p.m. EST by Matt763 (2)
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I personally think much of your demands are outrageous and obviously radical. With that, I applaud your efforts in trying to change our government for the better, despite your lacking grasp on reality. I, personally, would take away alot of these radical ideas and try to be more realistic and logical. Making these claims does a few things against your favor. For one, they make it easy to label your movement has illogical and radical, thus deeming it not important. For two, many of your "demands" would simply not benefit we Americans in the ways that you think.

I hope that you can further focus on more important issues in which I think your protest has derived. I hope you can concentrate on the major corporations (not just banks) and the unjust ways they have been bending our legal system to their favor for the last 30 years. Second, I'd hope you focus on things like coming up with healthier solutions to produce food for not only americans but the world and strive away from our unhealthy reliance on corn. Lastly, we need to readjust our priorities for american spending (which you touch on,just in a bad way). We need to spend more money on educating our children so that we can be more competitive for jobs. We need to spend more money and efforts on rebuilding our infrastructure (which you said), and we need to concentrate on bringing fair, honest, trade and business back to America.

I think you share many of these ideas with me, I just wish you would go about presenting these ideas in a more objective way. We need objective problem solving and peaceful reasoning. What we don't need is to be labeled as a bunch of whinny extremists. The way we present the argument is almost as important as the argument itself.

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[-] 2 points by doingsomething (50) from Raeford, NC 12 years ago

It really doesn't matter what they label it. That is the least of what they are going to do before it's over.

[-] 1 points by drcatherine (2) 12 years ago

This is a movement made up by many there are obviously going to be some very radical voices in the group. This is true of the Tea Party and it is true of the Occupy Movement. Some of us are opposed to capitalism as a system and would prefer a purely socialist economy others merely want to end corpratism. The Occupy movement is clearly an aggregation of voices.

I'm admittedly a radical leftist(a communist actually) and I do want the end of capitalism and I see this as an essential step for creating a socialist economy, however on that same token, I do agree that reasonable demands need to be met first.

The biggest point howver is that we want to make an impact and the various occupations will do that. I want capitalist interests out of shit that effects me and my family(aka the state) and I think that's what this movement is going to accomplish.

Just my thoughts.