Where is it all going? Consensus?

[1Admin]

The Occupy wall street socialists, where is it all going with them?

Worst case? Best case?

Speculations welcome, let's discuss it.

[Hawk_308]

Best case , home or jail ; Worst case , Organizes and rallies the left for the 2012 elections .

[WiseOwl]

I agree with Hawk.

Best case is they just give it up and realize that what they are doing will not change a thing. The people that they are protesting against are laughing at them daily.

Worst case is shots are fired or some sort of act of "terror" happens and the ripples actually effect the people that dont care for them. And now that it is getting cold, they will start to disperse, only to come back stronger than ever against the right next year.

[rice paddy daddy]

Those of us who lived through the civil rights riots and the anti-war riots of the 60's have seen all this before.
Cities on fire, violent protests, chaos in the streets turned the majority of the American public against the protests and gave us Richard Nixon for President, not exactly a socialist/liberal.
Actually, things were much, much worse then than now. The Republic survived.

[Blowmax10]

its funny - these people can't admit what a failure their president is so the had to find a scapegoat so they invented this 1% thing

[610Alpha]

best - they stop drinking the kool-aid from the liberal/socialist/marxist punch bowl. They get reacquainted with the morals that built this Great Nation, vote for term limits, help us turn this country back into the Constitutional Republic it was founded as, and that we enact Open Carry laws in all 50 states as well as US Territories.

worst - the beginning of last days...oh wait I read the back of the book we win!! Well as long as you are a believer you win :) Granted we belivers may have to endure some bad stuff but remember someone gave all for us.

Side note: I find it very ironic that the 1% pay a big chunk of taxes that support some of these very protestors. I seem to remember a saying "Don't bite the hand that feeds you". I don't get the "Hate the successful" but we are told to work hard to become successful. What we are seeing is similar in so many ways to Atlas Shrugged imo.

[rice paddy daddy]

But to answer the original question, where it's all going. I think as the public finds out who is really behind this anarchism, the OWS will loose all creitable support. There is a documented list circulating on the net now naming organizations and individuals who sponsor, or support, this movement. Ranging from Barak Obama to the Iranian state run media, to the American Communist Party, to David Duke. And a whole lot more.
Who was it that spoke of "useful idiots"? Was that Marx, Lenin, or Stalin? I forget. That's what many of these protestors are right now - useful idiots controlled by radicals. And when they find out they've been duped............................................. .......

[snarlbuckle]

I'm not concerned. Compared to the Tea Party, OWS is about as powerful as a kitty cat on chemo. In ten years, I think that OWS will only serve as a historical lesson in how not to protest. I think that history books will compare OWS and the Tea Party to point out effective ways to go about changing the policies of your government. I don't foresee anything catastrophic coming from OWS when they can't even agree on anything. At the times where they have tried to be violent or when they've blatantly vandalized property, the local riot police have been able to handle the situation just fine.

They're just people who didn't get enough spankings as children and probably still live in mommy's basement. It will pass when their moms get sick of them and kick them out like she should have done decades ago.

[All Talk]

Best case:

They continue as they are, on the same trajectory, futher underscoring to the general public the odious nature of the "gimme your stuff" mindset, while simultaneously showing themselves more and more as hypocrites. Result a better eductated public and hopefully some better (or more chastened) elected politicians.

Worst case:

Some kind of manufactured attack on them by left-wing agent provactuers posing as tea-party types,, leading to all the wrong beleifs in the general sheeple public.

[qrprat77]

I think these events are a training period for future Capos for something bigger next year, pre-election.
I think this is part of a global push toward collectivism.
Time will tell.

[Blowmax10]

Who was it that spoke of "useful idiots"? Was that Marx, Lenin, or Stalin?

It was Lenin - he was referring to the collage age activists that he used during the red revolution - The parallels to the OWS crowd is uncanny

I think luckily a smooth talking strong man like Lenin, Hitler, Manson hasn't emerged to take over the movement. Lenin didn't start the revolution, he just returned to guide it once it started - Hitler didn't start the Nazi party - He just found that he had a talent for rabble rousing

My greatest fear would be a smooth talker taking over the movement - You already see the seeds of antisemitism in the movement and they have no clear objective - a smart strong man like Castro could focus that anger and mold the protesters into doing what he wanted them to do

[Grinnan Barrett]

The movement if you want to call it that is going about where we expected it to. When the media started to go away the village idiots got violent in order to get attention they so crave. Before I would comment on them I had to go to three of their sites and talk to some of the residents. What I found was each one of them has his or her own agenda. They survive on media attention. Violence is always a card that comes out when no one else cares what they do. In Dallas they attacked a couple of my friends downtown at the Bank Of America Tower.

The next shoe to drop will be for the outside elements to join the party. As violence becomes a part of this mess you will see gang members start to show up and use this as an excuse to steal whatever they want under the guise of protest. Their big problem is they are losing the media's interest.

[Bill Spies]

Wait a minute. This 1% "thing" is not made up, it's statistically accurate. It was the greed of these 1%er's along with the lack of government regulation (which allowed these 1%er's to do what they did) that put the economy in it's present state. I don't claim to be an expert on this matter, but economics is something that I've studied and they are right in what they claim. BUT I don't think that what they're doing is effective. Face it! Showing your tits and banging tamborines isn't going to work. What will do the trick? I don't know. But something has to be done. If anyone has ever read Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, they would know that he predicted that Capitalism will fail because the 'proletariat' would realize the oppressions that the 'bourgeoise' (sp?) had placed upon them and rebel. Guess what boys and girls? We're seeing the beginning of that. This has nothing to do with politics (directly at least) and has everything to do with modern economics.

[Not_Yet_Prepped]

Wait a minute. This 1% "thing" is not made up, it's statistically accurate. It was the greed of these 1%er's along with the lack of government regulation

LACK Regulation is not the problem, we are in the boat we are in now because of mis-regulation and corruption. No company is too big to fail, No Country is too big to collapse. We can not use public funds to support private business or world governments or fight foreign wars in which we should not be fighting.

Also the 1% is not the real problem. The real problem is .0001% the few MEGA banking families that run the different "Currency" Banks around the world like our Federal Reserve Bank. We are talking about a private, for profit bank that does not pay taxes, does not get audited and gets a cut out of everyones pay check (they are the MOB but way big, way meaner, and they have whole armies and countries to use against us). They then get our tax dollars to build their offices and regional banks and they order our Government around like they privates in an army.

They get all this for "Keeping" the books. They Create "Money" from nothing and they trade our labor and goods for "PAPER" or Electronic Money. It is amazing that we let them do this.

Many of us think of Bill Gates as the richest guy in the world but he keeps his money in a bank... The really rich guys own the bank that lends the money out to the other banks where Bill keeps his "Paper".

Really Rich Families own:
-Currency Bank, which owns:
--Regional Bank, which lends money to:
---Customer Bank, which lends and holds money for:
----Bill Gates

Some of these families are members of many "currency" Banks and right now they trying to get these smaller "currency" banks consolidated into ONE. This is why we are now hearing about a ONE WORLD CURRENCY... which will be run by ONE WORLD BANK... That is a very very bad thing!

[TyrannyUnleashed]

It was the greed of these 1%er's along with the lack of government regulation

I quit reading at this point.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not part of the "evil" 1% and never have been(I'm unemployed)...

But you use "greed" and "lack of government regulation". I'm just curious what lack of regulation you are referring to?

Also I would like to ask you how much is too much for someone to make, before it becomes "greed"?