10-07-2011, 06:07 PM
the_poochies wrote:
The Tea Party really helped drive the debate in Washington for the past 2 years: just look at all of the talk about immigration crackdowns, challenges to the new healthcare law and bombast and threats re: federal spending. However, the Tea Party platform was helped by their direct involvement in getting their members elected. Will OWS eventually endorse candidates? Is it too early to tell? All I know is that they are bringing issues to the forefront that have generally been ignored by politicians, corporations and the MSM like a just economic system, the corrupting power of money in the political process and a general frustration with a public-private industrial complex that puts shareholders before citizens.
When I was discussing this with a friend of mine today, he referenced President Eisenhower's fear of the "military-industrial complex" and wrote back:
thinks the government runs the government & therefore it is the government that should be protested. Obama faces the same "establishment" Eisenhower, with all his prestige, couldn't budge, but it's much more intractable now.