THE MAN WHO DESPISES AMERICA
WHAT OCCUPY WALL STREET IS REALLY ALL ABOUT
Posted on 10/17/2011 4:31:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement—and it may cost them the 2012 election.
Last week, senior White House adviser David Plouffe said that "the protests you're seeing are the same conversations people are having in living rooms and kitchens all across America. . . . People are frustrated by an economy that does not reward hard work and responsibility, where Wall Street and Main Street don't seem to play by the same set of rules." Nancy Pelosi and others have echoed the message.
Yet the Occupy Wall Street movement reflects values that are dangerously out of touch with the broad mass of the American people—and particularly with swing voters who are largely independent and have been trending away from the president since the debate over health-care reform.
The protesters have a distinct ideology and are bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies. On Oct. 10 and 11, Arielle Alter Confino, a senior researcher at my polling firm, interviewed nearly 200 protesters in New York's Zuccotti Park. Our findings probably represent the first systematic random sample of Occupy Wall Street opinion.
Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn't represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse. Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence. Half (52%) have participated in a political movement before, virtually all (98%) say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their goals, and nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda.
The vast majority of demonstrators are actually employed, and the proportion of protesters unemployed (15%) is within single digits of the national unemployment rate (9.1%)....
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Let’s be honest about this. The RAT party is out of step with the American People. They do not believe in anything that we do.
Let the bastards keep digging the hole that we are fixin’ to throw them into. The deeper, the better.
I just heard that the CPUSA and the American Nazi Party have endorsed the OWS movement. The Dems are going to pay a heavy price, next November, at the polls for their support and their embracing of OWS.
Some of those signs aren’t bad - especially the one about there being 10,000 unemployed lawyers in NY.
Mac daddy and his plantation slaves, dumb o crate, are all cheerleaders now, when the violence starts and the deaths begin don’ t get in their way as they rush to condemn them and distance themselves from them.
Thanks for the post/link, Jeff. GRRRRREAT work!
Thanks for that “fleabagger” link, Fred. ROFLMAO!
I heard the most outrageous statement that said the corporations were purposely holding back on employment to make sure Obama does not get reelected. When I hear such comments, I wonder if this nation is so filled with idiotic dumbasses to cause it to collapse under the weight of its own stupidity. No corporation is going to sacrifice the loss of $billions to make a political point.
The entire business climate is being polluted by the toxic barrage of regulations, taxes, litigations and high energy costs. The whole atmosphere of anti-Capitalist policy, since the Democrats took power in 2007, has undermined America’s economic system. This is a time to undo the toxic environment and not blame the victim of it.
I hope and believe that's true, but I have a smidgeon of doubt. When I was growing up, and we were having nuclear war drills hiding under our schooldesks, the CP was complete anathema. Anyone joining it in the US was looked on as a near-traitor, and at the least a social misfit.
Now that the worldwide unity of Communism is less obvious in the post-USSR era, the notion of Communism doesn't have cause such immediate revulsion in the populace at large, especially the young, because they don't really know it. The unknown often has a certain romanticism to it.
Some portion of the protestor's gripes even seem reasonable. I walked by a sign that said "Personalized gains, socialized losses." Well, I couldn't agree more, but I'm sure I take a different message from it than the signbearer. He wants the government to socialize the profits; I want them to let the losses of the banks or GM be personalized according to the business law of priority.
There are daily polls claiming that the OWS is gaining support and traction--but no one talks about the unholy alliance that is supporting and organizing them. Even if they do, the MSM tries to sound balanced by saying something along the lines of how money from the Koch brothers probably went into the Tea Party.
People vote on emotion, and to some extent what they think they have as information. Garbage in, garbage out. So, the price they pay at the polls may not be as heavy as I would hope.
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