What Explains the Left's Affinity for OWS and Abhorrence of the Tea Party?

The American Thinker ^ | 10/22/2011 | Monte Kuligowski

[hsalaw]

My brother, my own flesh and blood, is a bleeding liberal with a real disgust for anything on the right.

Life IS funny like that. My sister, four years younger than I, is a registered dem and has been her entire life. But she is at least as conservative, or more so, as I am, and always, always votes Republican for president. She liked Pres. Bush, and is now a Cainiac. But - get this - she doesn't want to register Republican because she doesn't want to be seen as a Republican. Don't ask me. I don't care how she registers as long as she's really a conservative.

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[stansblugrassgrl]

My sister, the same way.

[okie01]

What Explains the Left's Affinity for OWS and Abhorrence of the Tea Party?

Simple. One wants even more government. The other wants less. Much less.

[struwwelpeter]

I think the reason people have different outlooks on politics (and life in general) are those encounters early in life that shape their character: parents, teachers, Boy Scout troop leaders, a neighborhood policeman, etc. Even in the same household, children get "molded" at different rates - father may have gone to longer hours at work, or died, different teachers in school.

I remember a 5th grade teacher named Mr. Haney, which kids found hilarious because the TV show 'Green Acres' was popular at the time. Tough, and scary, nobody wanted to end up in his class, and being one of the few male teachers at the school his students of course would receive a different experience.

One day he scared us all when off the record in geography he started discussing the Soviet nuclear threat - not the "threat of nuclear war" in general, but one initiated by the all too obvious expansionist communist dogma. Too him, Korea, Vietnam, everything could be explained by this.

My older brother and younger brothers had different teachers. They didn't end up in the armed forces, though I did. Today they are yellow dog democrats, whereas I switched parties when Reagan came on the scene.

My theory, for what it's worth.

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[sodpoodle]

“”Dr. King would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing those who work there.”

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[oneolcop]

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