Greg Sargent has an interview with Russ Feingold up at The Plum Line:
WaPo, The Plum Line, Greg Sargent: Russ Feingold endorses Occupy Wall Street. In it Feingold endorses the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
I'll just highlight a few key statements. Please follow the link and go to Greg Sargent to read the full interview and his analysis of it.
“The guys who are protesting are not filing legal briefs,” he said. “They are expressing the populist, genuine view that people have been ripped off. It’s a fundamental identification of the fact that people are getting taken for a ride by powerful interests who are getting away with murder.”
“The worm is finally turning on the nonsense of blaming the wrong people for what happened in 2008,” said Feingold, whose new group, Progressives United, was formed to counter the Citizens United decision and corporate influence over politics. “The American people are saying, wait, we have the boot of corporations on our necks, and we’re sick of it. This is a significantly coherent message at the beginning of something like this.”
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“This is a populist movement based on genuine suffering and fear,” he said. “Anyone who really lives out in working America knows that people are feeling very scared. This movement would probably not have this fuel if not for that reality.”
WaPo, The Plum Line, Greg Sargent: Russ Feingold endorses Occupy Wall Street
More and more, the movement is catching fire, bringing a spark to the long-suffering Amercan people who are beginning to wise up and rise up!