While I agree with a lot of the sentiment that I've seen come out of the Occupy Wherever movements...Sola Gangsta wrote:Exactly. Just show up and be such a pain in the ass that it breaks the system and causes the folks running things to run into the hills. Organization will have a favorable effect once the opposition to it is gone.
I can't see any public officials abdicating their offices and running to the hills.
Futher... Occupy's style of direct democracy doesn't seem workable to me. Watching some of the general assemblies, where EVERYONE has a say just seems like a laborious colossal process. It seems REALLY inefficient, and one person can derail the entire works. (It also caters to entitled people... MY VOICE IS IMPORTANT. LISTEN TO ME. LISTEN NOW!)
The other issue is that outside of any Occupy camp, the rest of the country runs on a representative democracy. So... the people in the camps really have no say in the day to day life of any one that should be representing them. Now... if Occupy got their GAs together, and started NOISILY putting voter registration drives in place, and LOUDLY started putting together how they were going to vote as a block on ballot issues and candidates they'd VERY QUICKLY move from "Dirty Park Hippies" to "uh, sir, you should come to the window. The electorate is here, and they have questions."
