Well you two are not the only ones who've called OWS as America's Arab Spring, but the Arab Spring was a response to oppressive regimes. Our current "regime" is exactly the one that you, ekg, and probably most of the OWS protesters, voted for.
So the government is neither a tyranny nor even your political opposition. Instead, it's exactly what you've voted for. So trying to identify it as a tyranny just like the Arab governments that were replaced seems ridiculous to me. Protesting against student loans, a poor job economy, and Wall Street corruption hardly seem to rise to that level.
Pleas stop being so obtuse. I know you get a little laugh out of it, but it simply doesn't suit one your age.
the term 'arab spring' was not meant to be taken for a literal 'arab spring' where the protestors were trying to overthrown an evil regime.. the term, as used here in this thread, meant only the massive amount of people finally getting up and protesting the status quo..the status quo being the rape of the economy by the right and the left..and the ripples that rape has caused through-out the country.
this was not hard to figure out, especially since you've been told OWS has nothing to do with overthrowing gov't or anarchy.. unlike the tea-people whining about not touching
their socialism, OWS it
is not a political protest/movement! I know that your righty blogs tell you OWS are anarchist, and since they are lefty and not tea-people you buy into it.. but they are not, and the term 'arab spring' is not meant to be taken as a literal 'Arab Spring!".. it is a reference to the amount of people who are finally tired enough to go out and say something..
sheesh..quit being so goddamn literal.. live in the grey for once, you might like it
