PLYMCO_PILGRIM
Gold Member
My issue is that people are calling it grassroots when big unions like SEIU have been planning this for months, groups funded by liberal millionaires and billionaires have also been preparing for it, and then people are calling it grassroots.....thats my true issue
You are mistaken about this. SEIU got involved only recently, and while many people on the left have been calling for, and trying to promote, some kind of popular dissent for a long time, it's a mistake to think they made it all happen.
I think a lot of conservatives don't understand this because (naturally enough) they don't participate in or monitor left-wing blog and on-line networking activity. (I mean, why would you?) I do, and I saw this building for a long time. There has been a growing desire for progressive reform ever since roughly the turn of the century, as the Millennial generation started coming of age.
It was there, on-line, in 2008, but it got diverted into electoral politics. The energy that is now going into the protests went instead into getting Obama elected. Naively, young activists thought that would be enough. But Obama has proved a disappointment: he campaigned as a progressive, but he's governed as a corporate Democrat. So, after a certain amount of fuming and venting at being betrayed, the energy now is going into protests, because it's clear that the Democrats will not do what they're supposed to do unless pushed.
Organizations like the SEIU and professional activists like Van Jones are quick to jump on the bandwagon, but they didn't start this. It grew from on-line discussions and networking, mostly among young people, that have been going on for years.
This isn't going away, either. It will continue to grow as long as this generation continues to come of age, which means roughly for another 15-20 years.
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