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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (82052)	10/24/2011 7:25:21 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 217890

Workers World Party (WWP)? LOL, those folks are a couple standard deviations further to the left of OWS. Just irrelevant fringe players who flock to political events and pretend to be the vanguard "inculcating the idea of struggle in the masses".

To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (82052)	10/24/2011 7:35:33 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217890

the ex-soviets know where the 99 vs 1% could easily lead to but theoretical talk, even if backed by poor experience, would not be able to sway a gradually more agitated crowd otoh, if the crowd do not get more agitated, they do not understand the situation appreciate the gravity, inevitably leading to an outcome worse than horrible, thus assuring a larger and enraged crowd coming into being as still more have still less the dynamics is not good across the entire spectrum of socio-politico-econo-financio-monetary scape leadership is required, but the universal suffrage for the people by the people against other people rule by making up ever more copious quantity of odd laws cannot possibly deliver up leadership of merit whereas the founding fathers may have modeled a democratic republic on the model of athens, voting by the elite for everyone else, the successive dilution of the founding principals shall just about guarantee that the ship of state run into rocks - only issue remaining is how big a rock post mao, and after deng, the chinese republic is closer to the athenian democracy than america, featuring voting by a tiny portion of the entire population