Dear Don Luzatto, it’s not you … scratch that …. It’s you, not me.

The Virginian ^ | 10/21/2011 | Moneyrunner

[moneyrunner]

Tea Party envy was running rampant in today’s Virginian Pilot as editorial page editor Donny Luzatto tried to equate the Tea Party with the Occupy Wall Street movement and it’s bastard offspring. According to Donny, they are both saying there’s something wrong with “the system.”

Wrong, big government breath.

The Tea Party’s focus is on big government, big taxes, big regulation, and big national debt. The Tea Party is a middle-class uprising. It took its energy to change, and in many cases take over, the Republican Party. They entered politics and helped win elections. They are in the process of transforming the Republicans from the party of Democrats-on-a-budget to Conservatives-with-momentum.

Occupy Wall Street is completely different. They are not seeking to change the Democrats. They mean to gain power with political theater. They don’t believe in the political system in which voters decide on who governs. They are in the streets rather than at the ballot box because there is no market for what they are selling: Jews are behind the collapse of the economy; Capitalism should be overturned; I went to college majoring in Angry Wymen’s Studies racking up a hundred thousand dollar debt, I can’t get a job with that major, I am angry that my college loan bills are so big, corporations are at fault, and the answer is more government. Try polling that primal scream and see how that sells.

[oldbrowser]

There is a lot more effort involved in changing the country than just sitting in the park and playing your guitar.