NP - What Occupy Did to 2012, What It Will Do to 2013

[rich]

I think tha'ts a stretch. u didnt need a weatherman...etc etc. I think
many people were plain insulted by the Romney clap trap--they didnt
need a movement to tell them not to vote for him. it's also a
statement that hardly could be proved anyway.
what about the african american, latino, immigrant, lgbt and women
vote--highly influential in this election not all of them predicated
on class per se, no?

rich

. But its effect on the election
> just passed could not be more profound, and it should not be ignored —
> though it likely will be — by the rest of the people trying to make sense of
> What It All Means. Occupy changed the national dialogue. Willard Romney's
> surreptitiously taped comments about "the 47 percent" would not have had the
> resonance they did had the Occupy movement not gotten the country talking
> about the 99 percent and the one percent. It created a new rhetorical
> paradigm that simply would not have been there had it not been originally
> shouted at the correct buildings. And it was that new paradigm that
> triumphed Tuesday night.