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Re:Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked by iskander on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @04:36PM (#10119259)
>Occupy had to protest confusing stuff.

I agree that a lot of the details of the financial system fly over society's collective heads, but I think the impunity of white-collar bad actors was a very concrete non-confusing source of outrage.

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Re:Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked by rhino369 on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @05:52PM (#10119704)
It's a very power populist message. But it's hard to channel that into reform. Holding banks responsible for the crash just wasn't possible. Creating regulation for the future was possible, but it's wonkish and doesn't lend itself to crowd pleasing measures.
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