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  • S.E. Cupp : Occupiers and Tea Party Are Linked More Than Either Admits

    11/17/2011 5:49:54 PM PST · by RobinMasters · 75 replies
    Newsmax ^ | NOVEMBER 17, 2011 | S.E. Cupp
    As partisans on the left and right try to co-opt and compare the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements, both sides ignore that they aren’t really that different at all. Both, in fact, hew to the same conventions as all mass movements. And as the 2012 presidential candidates — including President Obama — attempt to form their positions on each one, they’d all be wise to put them in perspective. In Eric Hoffer’s seminal 1951 work, “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements,” the similarity is drawn with startling clarity. The work of a self-educated gold...