Forum Post: Warning: Stop using OWS. People supporting both OWS and Wall Street same time.
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 24, 2011, 11:38 a.m. EST by frankjr
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Charlie Rangel congressman came to support us at NYC and then went to DC and voted for a trade bill which will stop regulation of wall street.
We should expose them.
As much as you don't want to support a political party. As much as you hate both sides. As much corruption as there is in the system, it IS the system we have at the moment. At some point you will have to support politicians for office. Hopefully people who have honor and scruples and who will fight to change the system.
Wall Street and MNC will not decide out of the blue to regulate themselves.
Ok. So you hate Democrats as much as you hate Republicans. Me, I'm even more upset with Democrats. More upset with Obama.
But one thing I learned from my John Birch Society father was vote. Vote every chance you get. If you don't vote then don't complain about who got in office. For me there are three choices.
Don't vote. Not a choice for me.
Vote for the best candidate who can win. Depends on the election. I would rather have voted for Kucinich but my choice was Obama or Hillary and I didn't trust Hillary. Maybe I should have voted for her. At least she has a balls.
Protest vote, which is to vote for the candidate who won't win but best aligns with your ideology. I've been voting for Green Party candidates here in CA. I know they have little chance of winning.
I totally support OWS. I'm behind what you are doing (99% of the time). If you are against R's and D's start supporting people who are going to run as independents or start your own political party.
Either our problems are going to be solved politically at the ballot box or by revolution/civil war. I think we would all prefer the political solution.
I am just listing. Nancy Pelosi voted bank bail outs but openly supports. All these people will be liabilities. Now some of us get exited as we hear big names supporting us but there is caution.
not enough information
I don't think there's an elected official you can find that won't be "guilty" of voting for something favorable to Wall St or that supports some kind of deregulation.
Bernie Sanders, Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul are probably the closest to "pure" when it comes to OWS. And even they...
When's the next round of Democratic primaries, then? And which OWS organizers are in Harlem and willing to locate and get behind a challenger for Rangel's seat? This is why we need our own slate of people running for office. If we want to get real change then we're going to need to offer real people willing to run for office and able to win; we can't trust people like Rangel to vote with their constituents and the general election offers us a choice between lip service and outright hostility.
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What blows my mind is that people like this can continue their political careers even after things like this (see link):
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/16/us-usa-congrss-rangel-idUSTRE6AF47I20101116
Eric Baldwin supports us but is spokes man for Capital One bank. Another hypocrite.
Alec Baldwin
Thanks