Occupy Wall Street protestors only win if Obama loses in 2012, says AEI’s Jonah Goldberg

The Washington Post's Think Tanked Blog ^ | October 28, 2011 | Allen McDuffee

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If the Occupy Wall Street movement truly believes in its platform, they would be doing everything they can to make sure President Obama loses his re-election bid in 2012, writes American Enterprise Institute visiting fellow Jonah Goldberg at National Review.

Why? As Goldberg sees it, President Obama is “the most divisive figure in America today.”

Not only are the left and the right divided, but...

Even more significant, the left is deeply divided over Obama. According to reports, the Occupy Wall Street movement is torn over whether to support the incumbent president. Polling of the protestors is sketchy at best, but so far it’s pretty clear that most of the protestors liked Obama in 2008, and now roughly half of them are disillusioned by, disappointed in, or opposed to Obama. That should only make sense, right? If Occupy Wall Street is a sincere, organic, grassroots movement for radical change and overturning the status quo, it can’t be 100 percent behind the guy who’s been running the country for the last three years.

Voting Obama out of office would require the Occupy Wall Street protestors to vote for the Republican candidate. But it was just last week that Goldberg took issue with one of his AEI colleagues who drew the conclusion after interviewing protestors at Zuccotti Park that they are “a bunch of people that are conservatives, they just don’t know it.”(continued)

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Watch their heads explode when they read this.

[dk88]

Add to the fact that having an R in office would allow their movement’s propaganda and coffers to grow while blaming said R as the collapse accelerates.

[Dutch Boy]

OWS is not working according to plan. They are devolving into chaos. You have rapes, beatings, public masturbation, thefts, creation of private police units, totalitarian rules...etc... Even the DU is complaining that the protesters are partying more the protesting.

I have recently heard of 3 great comparisons to the OWS movement; Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm and the South Park episode where all the adults were arrested and the kids took over only to completely collapse the town’s civilization in a matter of hours.

[wayoverontheright]

In my opinion, the media-left and right-are ascribing far too much significance to Occupy Wall Street.

For liberals, and that’s what these kids are, the oppotunity to cast oneself as a victim has a powerful allure, a strong psychological reward that conservatives just can’t understand.

They do crave the spotlight, but they are there merely to whine, to wallow in victimhood, and taunt the victors in a war they perceive they’ve already lost.

We marvel at how they seem to have no goals, no cohesive sense of purpose. That’s because they don’t.

The whine-ins provide a high degree of psychological fulfillment for them. Even they know their demands are outlandish, and they are chuckling in amazement that the things they ask for are being taken seriously.