You're smarter than this. How many times have I taken the road less traveled and been proven right? You had guys like Pickles back in 2004 attacking me for being a gold bull, claiming it was going nowhere. Look how much of a fool he's turned out to be. I owned his butt so badly he still hasn't gotten over it in 7 years. He probably sucks his thumb in bed having nightmares about it the way he carries on. Or how about when I said Obama was a one-termer, and you had these same fools claiming the republicans were finished and would not rise again for decades? They are pretty silent now, aren't they?
I would think that you would understand the danger in following the crowd and conventional wisdom of all people.
If I say Obama is behind the OWS movement, and the consensus is I'm crazy, you're first thought by NOW should be to dismiss the crowd.
Not to get all political (there's a reason I avoid those threads), but I don't get where this "Obama is behind the Occupy protests" comes from. I took part in the local version last week. I had a sign and and hung out in the park with some former students and other profs. I ended up talking to a number of passerbys who would stop to ask what we were about. One rather belligerent guy came over on his lunch break to antagonize us. While he kept things relatively civil, his arguments were borderline insane. He asked how the 99% protests started. I mentioned both David Graeber and Adbusters as the early organizers. He laughed at me and said, "Graeber, I don't even know who that is. OBAMA. Who do you think has the power? He called for this on TV."
I couldn't even reply to him. I just
ETA: After I told him I was upset with how campaign contributions determine policy, he made a loud point to note that Obama is the worst corporate funded politician of them all! I agreed with him. He totally is. The guy was utterly nonplussed. He thought he had leveled a deathstroke on me or something, and was confused that I wasn't a jobless lazy blue Democrat blindly supporting my man.
Maybe I answered my own question from above. Some people really are just black/white mentalities, locked in an eternal logical fallacy of either/or logic.