The Left’s Pathetic Tea Party

NRO ^ | 10/4/11 | RICH LOWRY

[TruthHound]

The Left’s Pathetic Tea Party The Occupy Wall Street movement is a juvenile rabble.

In the Occupy Wall Street movement, the Left thinks it might have found its own tea party.

MoveOn.org and some unions have embraced the protesters. The left-wing Campaign for America’s Future is featuring them at its conference devoted to reinvigorating progressivism. Liberal opinion-makers have celebrated them — Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne welcomes their spirit, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof compares them, astonishingly enough, to the demonstrators at Egypt’s Tahrir Square.

This is a sign either of desperation to find anyone on the left still energized after three years of Hope and Change, or of a lack of standards, or both. The Left’s tea party is a juvenile rabble, a woolly-headed horde that has been laboring to come up with one concrete demand on the basis of its — in the words of one sympathetic writer — “horizontal, autonomous, leaderless, modified-consensus-based system with roots in anarchist thought.”

The Right’s tea party had its signature event at a rally at the Lincoln Memorial where everyone listened politely to patriotic exhortations and picked up their trash and went home. The Left’s tea party closed down a major thoroughfare in New York City — the Brooklyn Bridge — and saw its members arrested in the hundreds.

[ALASKA]

I spent three days in “Liberty Plaza” last week, just observing and people watching. I have to disagree with those who say most of these kids are trust-fund babies. Of course, I didn’t check their accounts, but most were flighty, wandering, dirty, head in the sand people looking for something “cool” to do. There was no succinct message. I call the whole movement, as it is now, a politically/economically-confused sleepover.

[Revel]

And you think that you are any less simplistic with your explanation. There is so much wrong and trying to name off every detail would be impossibly complex to do. I am tired of even trying to do it. Because of people like you are the ones listening on the other end. It is a waist of time.

[SuziQ]

The Tea Party's signature event was 9/12/09 in front of the Ork's Capitol in Mordor-on-the-Potomac.

Exactly, and my hubby, SirKit, and I were proud participants. We listened to speeches, sang, yelled, and cheered, then also picked up all our trash, and went back to the hotel to celebrate with other Freepers! It was a GREAT time!