Wall Street protesters: We're in for the long haul

[Jacob]

I share his hostility.  There are just too many things in life (like working, spending time with family, sports, etc.) more worthwhile than protesting.  Plus, protesters tend to be annoying, self-righteous, and often out of touch with the people they are trying to bring over to their way of thinking.

That's not to say that protesting is never worthwhile.  It just isn't in this case & many others.

Do you share that hostility in regards to the tea party and similar protests with whom you find more ideological agreement? Or is this a blanket "protesters suck" kind of thing?

[Razgovory]

Time for the protestors to move on.

Yep

Despite being a liberal, I think I may have the heart of a conservative.  I don't like radical change, or protests, or mobs and the like.  Hell, I tend to order the same thing to eat every time I go out.

Conservatism's a temperament as well as an ideology.  If anything the two don't really go well together.

I don't get your hostility to protests though

I see it as similar to the Tea Party thing.  I didn't care for them either.  Generally speaking, I don't like protests, but this may be a personal thing.  I don't really care for large crowds in general.

[garbon]

A good protest is like a gig, or festival.  You're all there for roughly the same reason, there's a nice togetherness and often a good atmosphere.  In my experience you get a similar sort of feeling at the end of it and you've done something to do with an issue you care about.  It's better than the probably more worthwhile and effective letter-writing campaigns you have with Amnesty.

I think the self-congratulatory/self-gratifying element is more than obvious to outsiders.

[garbon]

I participate in a protest march once - we had a specific cause.

[Razgovory]

I participate in a protest march once - we had a specific cause.

What was it?  March to the other side of town?

[garbon]

I participate in a protest march once - we had a specific cause.

What was it?  March to the other side of town?

http://languish.org/forums/index.php?topic=1000.0

[The Minsky Moment]

Similarly with the Tea Party.  I think they've got a real point they're trying to make,

What might that be?

[Maximus]

I don't think one should be occupying private property or creating a mess in a public park because it's "fun". To address a grievance I can see even if I find most of them annoyingly self-entitled twats.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Here in Britain we have the Tory or Labour-lite party, the Labour or Tory-lite party and the Lib-dems who are some curious mix of both................all these parties routinely ignore public opinion........voting in those circumstances seems inadequate and insufficient; I'm not at all surprised that protests are starting to take place.

[Razgovory]

I participate in a protest march once - we had a specific cause.

What was it?  March to the other side of town?

http://languish.org/forums/index.php?topic=1000.0

I'm sorry I forgot about your actions 3 years ago.  How foolish of me.

[Razgovory]

Similarly with the Tea Party.  I think they've got a real point they're trying to make,

What might that be?

They want someone else to bear the burden

[garbon]

I participate in a protest march once - we had a specific cause.

What was it?  March to the other side of town?

http://languish.org/forums/index.php?topic=1000.0

I'm sorry I forgot about your actions 3 years ago.  How foolish of me.

I just thought it was easier to give you a link to it.

[Neil]

A protest march is, very often, just fun.

Why don't they have fun in a way that doesn't horribly inconvenience their fellow citizens and result in large public expenditures?

[Sheilbh]

What might that be?

Focus on the debt.  Government's a problem.

Here in Britain we have the Tory or Labour-lite party, the Labour or Tory-lite party and the Lib-dems who are some curious mix of both................all these parties routinely ignore public opinion........voting in those circumstances seems inadequate and insufficient; I'm not at all surprised that protests are starting to take place.

Yeah.  I despair of the government and I had some hopes for them to begin with.  At the same time I don't look at Miliband and think at least we've got a good leader in waiting.  I just feel we're kind-of fucked and Godspeed to any protest about that.

[Neil]

Yeah.  I despair of the government and I had some hopes for them to begin with.  At the same time I don't look at Miliband and think at least we've got a good leader in waiting.  I just feel we're kind-of fucked and Godspeed to any protest about that.

So an end to democracy then?

Now that's a protest I could get behind!