It would appear as though the two-week long Occupy Wall Street protest is gathering momentum after some 700 people were arrested yesterday after they blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge as detailed in this report at Fox Business News.
Based on the video above – now with their own food kitchen and media center in New York City – it looks as though they’re planning to hang around for a while, some now thinking that the group could have an impact on the 2012 elections.
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Tim, in what ways would you consider this to be like the tea party?
In case you didn’t watch the clip all the way through, that was a comment someone else made at the very end, not mine, hence the title with a question mark.
They are both certainly protest groups and this one appears to be much more concerned with things like income equality, so, I think that’s where the comment had its roots.
Whether it will turn into a real political movement like the Tea Party is a completely different issue and I’d think this will be much more difficult to pull off than was the Tea Party since organizing liberal causes is a lot like herding cats.
Got it. I did not watch the clip to the end.
I think a huge distinction is numbers. Poll the issues and you’ll find that “tea party populism” is actually quite a minority view.
Shocking that citizens will protest instituionalized fraud of such magnitude as to bring down the world economies. And that the former head of one such criminal institution would become the head of Treasury, and mandate a blank check bail out for his former firm and others. Shocking that not only bogus products were cooked up by these criminals, who got to keep their fraudulently earned bonuses, but that US GDP was a lie, too, based upon such bogus transactional revenue. Shocking that Mozillo, Paulson, Fuld go free, and keep their fradulently transferred wealth. Shocking that citizens are left holding the bag.
Related: http://ology.com/politics/jpmorgan-chase-donates-46-million-nypd-during-ows-protests
The leftist version of the Tea Party, we’ll see.
I guess it’s spontanious like the Tea Party, but the participants are different. The Tea Party is mostlly middle age Whites. From the photos that I have seen these people seem mostly to be young Whites in their 20’s – 30’s.
Since this group seem to be more leftist, and probably is, I wonder if the MSM will smear and demagogue this group like they did to the Tea Party. Cnn’s Anderson Cooper slured the Tea party as “tea-bagger’s”, Nancy Pelosi called them Nazi’s and said it wasn’t an authentic grass root inspriation, but was “astro turf”. The Daily Kos and Huffington post reguraly derided and ridiculed the Tea Party as racist and vile, others said the Tea party was controlled by the Koch brothers and other Neocon usurpers .
It will be interesting to see how the left and MSM media deals with this new uprising. Some how I doubt they will be as negative and harsh as they were with the Tea Party.
It will also be interesting to note how the Tea Party and the conservatives will deal with this new group. Some how I suspect they will be much more open and accommodating then the left was.
Yawn. A few thou hippie wannabes whose parents regaled them with tales of “the good old days” and bored unemployed blaming it all on banks. When .000000001% of the population riots, you know it’s headed nowhere.
The banks couldn’t have done it w/o a gullible ignorant entitled public. Maybe they should bring mirrors to the next one.
Brutus, you’re probably right.
was initially sympathetic to these people.
If you look closer at who they are and what they are saying, this is what I see:
Young liberals who are upset at the people that they elected, which is that Obama and the Dems. didn’t prosocute any of the Wall St. Titans that got our country into this ecenomic mess. Obama increased the bail-outs to the too big to fail that Bush started, and Obama hasn’t made any real regulation changes to the financial system.
You can sense some frustration from these people at Obama, but it seems that most just blame the rich, or the Republicans for stopping any of the necessary changes.
It also seems that many of these people are students and they are upset about the debt that they are in because of the high tuition costs. Yet they don’t see the connection between the ever increasing tuition prices and the government involvment in the insuring and supplying student loans, and the universities that take advantage of this situation.
What is interesting to me is that these people are angry at liberal government for not fixing the system, yet they think more liberalism is the answer . Even though Democratic politicians had total and unstoppable power in Washington for two full years, and controlled congress for 4 years, they would still rather blame Republicans, who were completely out of power in 09-10..
It seems to me that Obama rules this country just like Bush. Obama continued the Bush bail-outs, Obama continued the Bush wars, Obama pushes amnesty and high immigration rates to dampen wages just like Bush.
These people wanted change but instead they got more of the same. Yet they don’t blame their own politicians.
In some ways I agree, and in some ways I disagree with you.
You seem to believe that we have a liberal government, while simultaneously proclaiming that Obama is a continuation of Bush. There is some discontinuity in these statements.
These people are upset at government precisely *because* it’s not liberal. Like Bush was not conservative (finance wars and tax cuts with deficits!), but neo-conservative, so is Obama not liberal (finance lower taxes by milking Medicare and Social Security!), but neo-liberal.
Both parties represent corporate interests above the public. I believe that the Tea Party was born out of conservative recognition of this fact. In a likewise fashion, so is this movement born out of progressive recognition of this fact.
I believe the only hope for our two-party system is a simultaneous fracture into a four-party system. Should any one party fracture into a third party, it will practically hand the system over to their “opponent”. Only with four parties can we break the stranglehold of corporate interests.
Wow that sounds so complicated.