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Originally Posted by valo403
It's a bit of a mix of frustration and embarrassment really. It's frustrating to see this movement acting the way much of it is as it's demonstrating a total lack of reasonableness and connection to reality. It's demand making without having any understanding of what the demands really are, how to achieve them or what the ancillary consequences may be. There just seems to be very little thought in the whole thing.
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Heh. I was listening to Bill Maher's show while swimming this morning and he akinned the 'movement' to the hippies. Idealists that nobody knew what the heck they stood for. Some were anti-war, some were anti-establishment, some were anti-Johnsson/Nixon... but what they actually stood for was somewhat of a mystery.
But he then compared this with the Tea Party which has clear demands (lower taxes, balance the budget, but don't touch the military, medicare or social security) that have absolutely no basis in reality. Maybe it is enough to say "there is a huge problem and we're not smart enough to have all the answers".