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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
This is the whole crux of the debate. I think they know what they're trying to argue, but they are having extreme difficulty articulating it or forming it into a coherent, effective message.
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Honestly, I think you are giving them far too much credit.
OWS is rooted in the problem of financial inequity, how the so-called 1% pays almost nothing into the system and that the rest of the country is thus on the hook to pay for it all.
Occupy Canada, and particularly Occupy Calgary, appears to have misconstrued that protest into "our lives aren't perfect and it's someone else's fault." This is where the sense of entitlement and "gimme gimme gimme" attitude is coming from. They struggle to articulate their stance because the basis for their protest is ridiculous. Canada is not the United States. Our rules are different, our regulations are different, our tax schemes are different, and our safety net is different.
OWS was a cause that got overrun by many fringe elements, each with separate platforms. OC was never anything more than that fringe. And they are so disconnected from reality that they have not only utterly failed to generate sympathy, they have actually turned the public at large against them.
I said it before, but you can't expect your fellow man to stand with you when you stand for nothing.