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Old 11-10-2011, 01:10 PM   #737
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Originally Posted by valo403 View Post
That's where my disappointment lies as well, but I saw it form day one. The whole way this movement was established was ripe for the idiot fringe to become the voice, at least to the general public. There are so many good points, but they're lost due to the unwillingness to establish any sort of leadership based around actual intelligent points. The people and the ideas to do so are there, for some reason rejecting those at the edges isn't seen as an option and because of that the whole thing is undermining those points.

Oddly enough Bloomberg has been one of the view people to actually point this out. He had a statement today about the majority of the OWS protesters not being dirtbags. The OWS movement itself needs to find a way to separate itself from those people.
I couldn't agree with this post more. The focus in the media is almost exclusively on the fringe loons. There really needs to be a concerted effort by those who really want to make a positive change and make the intelligent contributions to organize and cut loose the idiot fringe.
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