I have one main concern with occupywallstreet and it's mainly about what the progressive blogs are hoping to achieve? While I support the sentiment and the idea behind the movement I just feel like this blog and most left leaning sites are consumed with the protests and the arrests lately and we're losing site of other things. The President has a proposed jobs plan that actually could be a big help and the lefts attention is no longer on that and I wish occupywallstreeet would start trying to move actual legislation and get things done which would make this movement a lot stronger.
I just read this great quote earlier on another site by a poster named massappeal and it completely sums up my thoughts :
A quote from Jessie Jackson:
""In 1960 Martin Luther King supported Kennedy instead of Nixon to prevent America from going backwards.
Then he marched in the streets of Birmingham to pass the Civil Rights Act to move the nation ahead.
In 1964 Martin Luther King supported Johnson instead of Goldwater to prevent America from going backwards.
Then he marched in Selma to pass the Voting Rights Act
to move the nation ahead.
For Dr. King there was no conflict between voting strategically to prevent the triumph of reaction and leading a nonviolent mass movement to pressure a president to achieve profound social change.
When we in the movement struggled for social justice we helped weak presidents become stronger.
When we in the movement struggled for social justice we helped good presidents become great."
Following from this, one key question for those of us "in the movement" is: are our actions and demands expanding (or constricting) the possibilities of a good president becoming great?
Just think about it. I don't want this movement to forget that in order for us to save our future we need to make sure we don't lose the next election.
