It takes a former Republican governor of Louisiana to say what we have all been thinking. Roemer was on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell after a visit to OWS. He gave almost unlimited support for them.
O`DONNELL: So you`re down there talking to the protesters today.
What did you learn actually going down to the site?
ROEMER: Well, I didn`t do much talking. I did a lot of listening.
Now maybe I`m not a good politician. But I wanted to see what their
feelings were.
I found them to be American. I know they`ve been called un-American.
I found them to be very American. I found them to be concerned about their
country. I didn`t agree with all of their particulars, but they ask
questions.
You know what America needs to do? It needs to ask questions of a
system that`s broken. And that`s what they`re doing.
I love them there. I remember -- I`m an old man. I`m 68. I remember
the Vietnam protests when I was in college. I remember the civil rights
protests on my city streets when I was a young man in the Deep South. They
changed America.
The politicians need to listen to these young people. It could change
America.
O`DONNELL: The politicians who aren`t listening to them apparently
are your fellow presidential candidates on the Republican side. The
presidential candidates all seem to have very strong opinions about this,
without having listened to a word they say.
ROEMER: You know, I don`t like that, because there are some decent
people running, but I didn`t see the president there either. I don`t see
many Democrats running down to listen. I think it`s a political problem,
not a party problem.
I do think that my party, of which I`m proud, could expand its
membership and its importance if it listened more, particularly to those
who feel left out.
America`s in trouble, Lawrence. And it`s not about a party. It`s not
even about a president. It`s about 99 percent of the people who think they
have no say-so in who we are.
To paraphrase Gov. Roemer, where are the inept, tone-deaf, hapless, hopeless, feckless, worthless, incompetent f*ing Democrats?