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

[David Morris]

Occupy successfully changed the predominant conversation from deficit
reduction to income  and opportunity inequality. THAT's what Pierce is
talking about, and Romney's 47% secret recording played into occupy
perfectly.


On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:55 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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