Occupy Wall Street Through Beckers “Ideal Democracy” Occupy Wall Street is a protest movement that started on September 17th of 2011 after being inspired by protests in Spain. Occupy Wall Street raises issues such as greed, economic inequality, corruption and the influence of large corporations have in the government. While Occupy Wall Street is still growing there’s still been a substantial impact in the cities it has reached. People are now more aware of the world that they are living in, no longer are they completely blind to the injustices happening all around them everyday. In relation to Carl Beckers “Ideal Democracy” Occupy Wall Street is the closest thing we can have that can work in todays world. Occupy Wall Street is merely Beckers …show more content…
OWS gives power to the people, the face of Occupy is the people, there is no one person that all the glory and recognition goes to, it is simply the 99%. Too often in todays government we have large corporations directing many of the behind the scenes action, swaying anybody and everybody to get what they want to work. That is precisely exactly what both OWS and Becker want to avoid in having a system such as these. The people need to know what is going on in the world that they live in, we as people vote so that we feel that we have power and that what we think matters. With the substantial downfall of the amount of votes received in recent elections we know that the 99% is realizing that what they want is not clearly being heard and that they feel powerless with the current …show more content…
When a key value of the movement is freedom of thought, and having your opinion mean something, you will have disagreements regardless of the circumstances. What defines the quality of the movement is how they deal with differing opinions, do you always do what the general public says or do you make sure that you aren't alienating a certain group of people and occasionally ignore the popular opinion? For Becker this will be one of the make or break points in the face of Occupy Wall Street, how do they deal with people opinions being heard but overall being ignored after the decision has been