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

[Ian Livingston]

I think one of the greatest factors OWS contributed was its impact on the
youth vote. Once the movement responded to the problems of planted agents
provocateurs, homeless followers, and police brutality by evolving beyond a
protest movement into a political movement, their attractiveness to young
voters increased dramatically, I suspect (extrapolating from the young
people I know--which is a very small sample), and they put effort into
getting out the vote. Then, of course, the work they've done post-Sandy
made front pages again, again with positive associations. The message
remains the same: it's up to us to change things because the government has
become unresponsive to the wishes and needs of the people. That resonates
clearly in these times.

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:39 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> No need to prolong this.  But prior to OWS, despite polls showing the
> public didn't care about deficit reduction, that was the only thing the GOP
> harped on, and Obama wasn't disagreeing much.  OWS IMHO very effectively
> turned the conversation to economic just, not austerity.  Europe still
> doesn't get that one.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:28 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> most people polled said deficit reduction wasn't one of their major
>> concerns. Jobs and others were. I'm not saying OWS didnt raise some
>> sort of awareness but so much of what people were feeling they were
>> feeling so personally (their wages, retirement funds, etc.) that even
>> without OWS around their votes wouldn't be any different from the
>> election results.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:10 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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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