RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Occupy Wall Street

The protesters have a distinct ideology and are bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies. On Oct. 10 and 11, Arielle Alter Confino, a senior researcher at my polling firm, interviewed nearly 200 protesters in New York's Zuccotti Park. Our findings probably represent the first systematic random sample of Occupy Wall Street opinion.

Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn't represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse. Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence. Half (52%) have participated in a political movement before, virtually all (98%) say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their goals, and nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda.

The vast majority of demonstrators are actually employed, and the proportion of protesters unemployed (15%) is within single digits of the national unemployment rate (9.1%).

An overwhelming majority of demonstrators supported Barack Obama in 2008. Now 51% disapprove of the president while 44% approve, and only 48% say they will vote to re-elect him in 2012, while at least a quarter won't vote.

...What binds a large majority of the protesters together—regardless of age, socioeconomic status or education—is a deep commitment to left-wing policies: opposition to free-market capitalism and support for radical redistribution of wealth, intense regulation of the private sector, and protectionist policies to keep American jobs from going overseas.

...Thus Occupy Wall Street is a group of engaged progressives who are disillusioned with the capitalist system and have a distinct activist orientation. Among the general public, by contrast, 41% of Americans self-identify as conservative, 36% as moderate, and only 21% as liberal.

No I'm not. I've never lied to you anywhere or at anytime. The slightest hint of a breeze containing the possibility of a personal slight towards you, and you go apeshit. I offer to meet you halfway by posting articles and vids showing partisanship that agreed with your political perspective. I asked you to do the same. You couldn't. You tried multiple excuses ("I don't have time", "I don't know where to get them", "Oh Jon Stewart is just a Liberal comedy show, so I don't accept your peace offering, even though you voluntarily posted something that agrees with my political conspiracies", "Oh you're so mean", etc., etc.) And after all of your tantrums, you still can't disprove that FOXEntertainment, Glen Beck, and all the hate-speech that they spew is anything but the most obviously biased lock-step Right propaganda ever crafted by a Corporate Committee.

So, yeah. Sorry but the rules of life say: You lose.