Posted by
David Eric Smith on
Jan 21, 2012; 2:22pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Understanding-the-Occupy-Movementf-tp7210588p7211093.html
Oops, sorry for two posts:
To address the specifics of your post, which I meant to do.
If social inequality is the main question, then it may be a partisan
issue, because there will be a spread of opinions in the society of
what is desirable, and at some level of approximation, the adoption
of positions by parties provides a way to sort out how that spectrum
will organize to come to a decision. Mechanisms for qualitative
change presumably often originate as partisan issues, and then become
mainstream if one party can hold them long enough that they become
inculcated.
If the question of the gap between the claims of the law and the
reality of the law is the issue, then that would more naturally be a
party-independent question, since any party depends to some extent on
the existence of "rules of the game", and would on some occasions
have reason to object if there are no rules.
Of course, I understand that I also make these distinctions as if
they were clearer than they are in practice, but I think they are a
starting point from which one could try to sort out the mess and
categorize a bit.
E
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