The Atlantic: The Triumph of Occupy Wall Street

[LiberalElite]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/the-triumph-of-occupy-wall-street/395408/?google_editors_picks=true

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On her first campaign stop in Iowa in April, Hillary Clinton struck a decisively populist tone, declaring that “the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.” Later, she sharpened her rhetoric on income inequality by comparing the salaries of America’s richest hedge fund managers with kindergarten teachers.

Clinton isn’t alone. Democratic presidential challenger Bernie Sanders has spent the spring railing against the excesses of Wall Street greed while calling for a financial transactions tax and a breakup of the big banks. Even leading Republican contenders have jumped on the inequality bandwagon: Jeb Bush, through his Right to Rise PAC, asserted that “the income gap is real,” while Ted Cruz admitted that “the top 1 percent earn a higher share of our income nationally than any year since 1928,” and Marco Rubio proposed reversing inequality by turning the earned-income tax credit into a subsidy for low-wage earners.
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[Warpy]

1. Even as their camps were being brutally crushed by militarized police

I pronounced them a great success. They'd done in a few short weeks what we on the left had been trying to do for 40 years: educate the largest number of people possible in what had been happening to them and who was responsible.

They also educated us pretty thoroughly on the dangers of a militarized police system.

[aspirant]

2. Maybe it's just me,

but why do I feel a separation between the TPP Multinationals and the AMERICAN Wall Street Banksters, MIC'S, Big Pharma and other AMERICAN 1%er's

These crooks are one in the same.

Yet when talking about the TPP Multinationals we refer to enforcing labor standards, environmental impacts, separate Tribunals, lifting foreign nations, beating China to the finish line and rarely label them as greedy 1% monsters?

[merrily]

3. I love OWS, but OWS is NOT responsible for Sander's message, which pre-dates OWS by decades.