The Occupy Wall Street Movement is something that has received a lot of attention in the news recently, and we have even experienced an Occupy UCLA Movement on campus. One interesting question that the article proposed is “what if our system is so badly broken that honest democratic politics is no longer possible?” This statement made me think a lot about the development of American politics and democratic freedom that we have been learning about in class. The author infers that one of the most frustrating things about the Occupy Wall Street Movement is that it is difficult to decipher what exactly the people who are protesting are fighting for. The article also brings up the point that the protestors continually use the words “we the people”, but really they only make up a very small percentage of the total population.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-0
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