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Who are these people?

Who Are These People?

by digby

Hey look. Chris Hayes features some people who haven’t seen a gazillion times before, talking about politics in an interesting way on TV. On Sunday no less.

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As for whether politics can exist outside the normal channels, all I can say is that it needs to. But, it’s not easy to mobilize people in our society. People are cynical and busy and still quite comfortable overall despite their building angst about the future.

I keep hearing complaining about the Wall Street protests as being “unfocused” and lacking an “end game.” But protests movements don’t always have an end game and being unfocused is often part of the package, particularly in the beginning. The point of many a protest is simply to protest, give voice to people’s feelings and beliefs.It’s a spontaneous rising up. I guess I don’t understand why that bothers people.

And anyway, it’s often the reaction it provokes that moves the conversation to the next phase.

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