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there's still time for unity
2011-Oct-13, Thursday 08:42 amThere's still time for the occupation to truly represent the 99%, although the window of opportunity is closing.
On the political left, The Daily Beast website has published an interesting Venn diagram of how the Occupation and the Tea Party converge in their thinking. On the political right, a FOX News poll shows that 2/3 of respondents favor the occupation.
Even the Atlantic is noting the differences and the potential for commonality between the Occupation and the Tea Party.
I leave you with this photograph that I took on Friday at OccupyMN in Minneapolis. Two different people came with signs comparing this movement to the previous Tea Party. A few of us took photographs when they crossed paths. The original tea party rebellion was a bunch of felons who destroyed property when it was taxed by people who did not give them representation in government. That concept translates fairly easy to the current Occupy Wall Street movement, where the plutarchs determine policy by purchasing lobbyists while the rest of us are increasingly drained of wealth without our interests being protected in the laws of our country.
On the political left, The Daily Beast website has published an interesting Venn diagram of how the Occupation and the Tea Party converge in their thinking. On the political right, a FOX News poll shows that 2/3 of respondents favor the occupation.Do 'Occupy Wall Street' protesters represent your views about the nation's economic problems?
Maybe. I am not even sure what they want. 2.38% (5,877 votes)
No. They have no idea how jobs are created or how a free-enterprise system works. 30.82% (75,990 votes)
Yes. These folks are right about corporate greed and what's happening to the little guy. 66.03% (162,773 votes)
Other (post a comment). 0.76% (1,881 votes)
Total Votes: 246,521
- http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/10/07/do-occupy-wall-street-protests-represent-your-views-economy/
Maybe. I am not even sure what they want. 2.38% (5,877 votes)
No. They have no idea how jobs are created or how a free-enterprise system works. 30.82% (75,990 votes)
Yes. These folks are right about corporate greed and what's happening to the little guy. 66.03% (162,773 votes)
Other (post a comment). 0.76% (1,881 votes)
Total Votes: 246,521
- http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/10/07/do-occupy-wall-street-protests-represent-your-views-economy/
Even the Atlantic is noting the differences and the potential for commonality between the Occupation and the Tea Party.
With Occupy Wall Street, those protective of the status quo may be more rattled than they had by the Tea Party, which in its aim to minimize government's role, carried an agenda convenient with Wall Street's current mood. This is because OWS are directing their ire squarely towards the real elites of the country, rather than their bought-and-paid marionettes sitting in Washington.
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Beyond this, they are likely smarter, and with more idealistic energy, than their Tea Party analogues. Ranging from younger near anarchists to older protesters with almost Eisenhowerian politics (repulsed by income disparities reminiscent of the "robber baron" era) they are a disparate bunch, to be sure.
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As something of a Burkean, I find it odd that I am sympathetic to these protesters, but they are not looking to trot out the guillotines (notwithstanding a "Behead the Fed" sign!). Instead, they are responding to the rot of a representative democratic system poised by the oligarch-like behavior of elites wholly disconnected from, yes, the 99%. They are acting to secure conservative aims of re-balancing a society that is becoming dangerously unmoored and increasingly bent asunder. They want accountability and dignity and prospects. Their leaders have failed them. So they have taken to the street to lead themselves.
- http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/this-aint-no-tea-party-a-conservative-defense-of-occupy-wall-street/246549/
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Beyond this, they are likely smarter, and with more idealistic energy, than their Tea Party analogues. Ranging from younger near anarchists to older protesters with almost Eisenhowerian politics (repulsed by income disparities reminiscent of the "robber baron" era) they are a disparate bunch, to be sure.
...
As something of a Burkean, I find it odd that I am sympathetic to these protesters, but they are not looking to trot out the guillotines (notwithstanding a "Behead the Fed" sign!). Instead, they are responding to the rot of a representative democratic system poised by the oligarch-like behavior of elites wholly disconnected from, yes, the 99%. They are acting to secure conservative aims of re-balancing a society that is becoming dangerously unmoored and increasingly bent asunder. They want accountability and dignity and prospects. Their leaders have failed them. So they have taken to the street to lead themselves.
- http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/this-aint-no-tea-party-a-conservative-defense-of-occupy-wall-street/246549/
I leave you with this photograph that I took on Friday at OccupyMN in Minneapolis. Two different people came with signs comparing this movement to the previous Tea Party. A few of us took photographs when they crossed paths. The original tea party rebellion was a bunch of felons who destroyed property when it was taxed by people who did not give them representation in government. That concept translates fairly easy to the current Occupy Wall Street movement, where the plutarchs determine policy by purchasing lobbyists while the rest of us are increasingly drained of wealth without our interests being protected in the laws of our country.