As he observes-- things are changing-- more and more people are beginning to participate in the democratic process:
"People are now participating in activities that they haven't done before.
A lot of people are used to being couch potatoes and they expect everything is going to be feed to them by a political party or by a legislator or by a sports team or whatever. And that's not the way things happen...
Fantastic interview; well spoken, articulate folks takin' time to actually TALK about issues with each other. Citizens formulating opinions and ideas outside of, yet directed at the political sphere, have to be reckoned with.
As he observes-- things are changing-- more and more people are beginning to participate in the democratic process:
"People are now participating in activities that they haven't done before.
A lot of people are used to being couch potatoes and they expect everything is going to be feed to them by a political party or by a legislator or by a sports team or whatever. And that's not the way things happen...
Things happen when people get active."
krishna109 4 months ago
Its people like this that will really carry "Occupy Wall Street' forward.
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Fantastic interview; well spoken, articulate folks takin' time to actually TALK about issues with each other. Citizens formulating opinions and ideas outside of, yet directed at the political sphere, have to be reckoned with.
harrylampton 4 months ago