Comments on: Occupy Movement hanging out, slowly drying. https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/01/occupy-movement-hanging-out-slowly-drying/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:17:27 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/01/occupy-movement-hanging-out-slowly-drying/#comment-13154 bowser Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:27:00 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=12234#comment-13154 Conservatives embrace the Armed Forces and use them to make political points. That doesn't mean the military is a Conservative stooge. People can agree with each other without being "stooges". Conservatives embrace the Armed Forces and use them to make political points. That doesn’t mean the military is a Conservative stooge.

People can agree with each other without being “stooges”.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/01/occupy-movement-hanging-out-slowly-drying/#comment-13153 TB Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:30:55 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=12234#comment-13153 <p>Last October Democratic leaders were embracing the movement and using it to make political points.</p> People here who shall remain nameless were telling us how this was the undercurrent of the Real America, rising in revolution. At the time, I had a different opinion. There was <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/10/why_union_support_for_occupy_w.html" rel="nofollow">heavy union support,</a> back then, and unions don't even fart without Democratic Party approval. When the movement turned out to be considerably less appealing than they thought, both the Party and the <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/03/occupy-wall-street-big-plans.html" rel="nofollow">unions</a> ditched them, and major news coverage mostly dried up. Last October Democratic leaders were embracing the movement and using it to make political points.

People here who shall remain nameless were telling us how this was the undercurrent of the Real America, rising in revolution. At the time, I had a different opinion.

There was heavy union support, back then, and unions don’t even fart without Democratic Party approval.

When the movement turned out to be considerably less appealing than they thought, both the Party and the unions ditched them, and major news coverage mostly dried up.

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/04/01/occupy-movement-hanging-out-slowly-drying/#comment-13151 bowser Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:39:06 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=12234#comment-13151 How do we know the Occupy Movement were Democratic Party stooges? (I think if I had posted the above it would have been suggested the post belonged on Flame. Wouldn't have taken long. :-)) How do we know the Occupy Movement were Democratic Party stooges?

(I think if I had posted the above it would have been suggested the post belonged on Flame. Wouldn’t have taken long. :-) )

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