Posted on 10/13/2011 3:44:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai
… There are plenty of reasons to reject the possibility of alliance between Tea Partyism and OWS, but not necessarily good ones. The easiest out is to pour this new wine into old bottles and characterize OWS as dirty hippies using retrograde protest tactics. Many are kinda like that. But that stuff was a couple of decades ago. No, wait—four decades ago. These kids have no direct knowledge or experience of, say, Kent State, and older observers might be too prone to fitting them into a pattern that doesn’t exist for them.
To the extent the substance of their grievance is, or can be turned to, corporations’ use of government power to win unjust power and profits for themselves, that’s a grievance I can sit in a drum circle for.
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Tainted tea. Best dump it in a sewer.
Problem is the OWS dolts’ solution is MORE government power. Not less.
They get what they want, and we’ll get MORE crony capitalism!
It is an irreducible conflict!
Occupy Wall Streeters need to realize that Obama has received more money from Wall Street than any politician in the past 20 years:
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-attacks-banks-while-raking-wall-street-dough-044804642.html
And big banks/bankers love Obama, too. Obama current and former Whote House COS were formerly banksters. Pbama said that he wouldn’t bring in corporate lobbyists into his administration, but he did.
Hopefully at least some of the true believers in OWS (not the turfers) will get a clue to this reality.
And hopefully, conservatives will inform people that Dems make the GOP look like amateurs when it comes to all of this.
Your post is disinformation.
Talk show host Dave Wooten Radio notes that the “Days of Rage” organizers met with President Obama FOUR times in White House, and linked Weathermen co -founder Bill Ayers and Steven Lerner of the SEIU International Leader and Acorn Founder Wade Rathke to this “leaderless” movement. He believes they want Obama to declare Marshall law and onto “Fundamentally Transforming” America so that “Socialists, communists, Islamists, Unions and the Radical Left in America” can “Fundamentally Change” Western Culture to create “The One World Order” that Alynsky & Karl Marx would be proud.
This hardly appears Libertarian, now does it!
Not to mention the fact that the media will use it to further OWS goals, not libertarian or tea party goals.
The left is so gullible that if we had a video of the meetings they wouldn't believe it.
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