I’ve posted about this in another question, but generally I think it’s great to see young people getting out from behind their ‘reality’ shows and liking people’s garbage on facebook to actually make their ideas known, whether I personally agree with it or not (I do.)
Also, the ‘love it or leave it’ mentality is so idiotic I really can’t even begin to address it.
I also don’t see this protest as “stop all capitalism now.” I’m sure everyone involved has a different ideal and different goals, but the way I see it, it’s more of just showing how many people out there are not profiting and living the good life.
It’s showing that there are people making millions by employing dishonest practices, while there are respectable people of the working class – teachers, people who do actual labor, etc – who get pretty low wages for a terrific amount of work.
I understand that not everyone’s qualms about capitalism are not as strong as many of those involved in the protests, but are you really trying to say that you don’t have any? Corporations have a very heavy involvement in politics – and I think we all know that’s an understatement – is that okay? I know that’s not the basis of the protest, and has a lot to do with our flawed government rather just capitalism, but a lot of people who oppose the protests seem to suddenly praise capitalism as a flawless system when prior to this, I’m sure many would be complaining online…