Unlike 'Occupy,' Tea Party Knows What It's Protesting

Unlike Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party knows what it's protesting

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So... some guy who's already biased against OWS claims he went to one of the protests and couldn't find anyone there to explain things clearly to him. Assuming he's telling the truth, this still means nothing because:

1) You talking to a handful of people at one of the satellite protests is statistically insignificant. If you had poll numbers (and we had access to the data to verify that the analyses were correct) that would be something. This is hearsay, and ergo worthless.

2) If you're going to use that small group you encountered to tar and feather the entire movement, I expect you to fully concede that all of the Tea Party is racist and stupid because I've met a handful who are both. Remember "Keep your government hands off my Medicare?" And those pathetic, childlike signs? You know, the ones where not a single word was spelled properly and the sentence construction was grammatical torture? By your line of logic that proves everyone in the Tea Party is a sub-literate moron.

3) Tea Partiers don't know what they're doing. Even if their wrongheaded economic and political ideas were coherent, they let their movement get quickly and thoroughly hijacked by the establishment of the Republican party and they've already fizzled out. Didn't you notice that people are only talking about you now as a comparison to OWS? Meanwhile, citizens across the nation are either voting your initiatives down or voting you out of office. You've failed. Miserably.

And just for good measure:

4) There are two kinds of people in the world: those who acknowledge the importance of people like Marx in the development of economic theory, and those who are still wetting themselves over the Red Scare. You have clearly established yourself as belonging to the latter. Just because I've read the man's books and agree with some (some!) of his assessments doesn't make me a communist or a socialist by the way. Not that you know what either is in the first place...

Deb F of OH 7:26AM November 27, 2011

Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi were the most famous proponents of civil disobedience.

The fact that you're trying to conflate civil disobedience with violence makes me nauseous.

The fact that you celebrate those who are "not fans of civil disobedience" makes me miserable.

I stand behind Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, and anyone who doesn't is lowly indeed, whether they are protesting our reckless government or our reckless businesses.

Peter of PA 10:39PM October 22, 2011