Are these US protests significant?

[Gandalf]

To the people involved in the protests, they matter. Are they significant?

About as significant as a British citizen, who currently lives in Korea, talking politics on a boxing forum, with a hard on against the US.

Not really.

JMO

I have nothing against the citizens of the United States and only wish them well, but there is no escaping the fact that middle America has been systematically taken apart for well over 30 years. And this is planned and deliberate. So, because I am British and live overseas, that automatically means that I should have no viewpoints about international politics and should certainly abstain from any opinions concerning the country effectively rules the world? Damn the BBC for covering the Libya crisis too, eh?

Once again you respond with nothing more than snide little comments. Whatever floats your boat.

It doesn't mean you can't have any viewpoints but be warned that people in the US will not take you seriously when you don't have any experience of what middle America is besides reading about it in news articles or being a foreign tourist that visited America for a few days or few weeks. So there are people that will not take you seriously.

Just like I don't like it when Americans talk about other countries that they have really no knowledge about besides at the most reading about the situation in news articles or just visiting that country for a few weeks as some tourist. Domestic issues of other countries let people that live there talk about it, because they know more of what goes on than some outsider.

And furthermore the US is a big place, middle America in California would be different than say middle America in North Dakota. It's not entirely the same and solutions of 1 size fits all is pretty lame.

And BTW, talking about some's country middle class is entirely another country's domestic issue not what I would call "international politics." In fact you know nothing about the situation here, hence why you are starting a thread entitled, "Are these US protests significant?"

I know little about the current protests, but I know quite a lot about the actions of the US government which have been systematically carried out for many decades. In that regard, I am probably more qualified than many American's to comment on recent US political activity, both domestic and international.

Generally speaking I am a person that follows issues, but as I have said previously, for the last few weeks, I have fallen out of usual patterns of behaviour. That is why I wanted to know what people in the US know of these protests. I know America is slightly larger than Mexico, but the TV news is national and informs everybody in much the same way. I was hoping to know something on those lines.

It is wrong for people to say that I hate America when it is only the corporate and political elite that I despise. I have a great affection for ordinary people no matter where they are from and that includes America too. The snide comments irritate me.