Idealism

Originally posted by rwingett
Perhaps you slept through the Occupy Wall Street protests last year.

They will grow up too.

Originally posted by rwingett
We are all leaders.

Then you all know you aren't telling the truth and aren't representing anything close to 99%.

Originally posted by normbenign
They will grow up too.

I don't think you understand what we're like...the spawn of the starved beast. Starving beasts are lean, mean and hungry. When we grow up we organize the young beasts and teach them how to run the streets.

Well, not me, I'm fat, lazy and eat recreationally (I'm Irish, we appreciate food). But still.

Originally posted by rwingett
So we should all make what the lowest paid worker in the world does? Or that we have no right to complain unless we do? Either one is completely ridiculous.

We may all filter information through our biases, but my information passed through fewer layers of distortion than did yours. As someone who participated in several Occupy demonstrations, I can tel ...[text shortened]... rom FOX News, it's no wonder you haven't formed an accurate mental picture of the real world.

Wake up, man. I didn't say we should make what the lowest paid worker does. I was pointing to the hypocrisy of your protests. In the eyes of the world we are the 1%. The people in those crowds were more interested in their personal issues than actually helping the poor or feeding the hungry. I never watch fox news, by the way. My primary source of information about the occupy movement was the Diane Rehm show. I don't have to be in a crowd to recognize selfishness. For instance, predatory lenders were greedy. Do I have to have been a predatory lender myself to make that statement?