How the Tea Party beat Occupy Wall Street

[PaceAdvantage]

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-the-tea-party-beat-occupy-wall-street-2012-08-21?link=home_carousel

About a year ago I called Occupy Wall Street a “tea party with brains.”

Today, I’m the one who needs his head examined.

Occupy Wall Street, the movement critical of banks, the super-rich and their influence in our politics and daily lives, has failed to live up to its promise as an important social and political force.Duh. Who of us "with brains" didn't see this one coming.

1. It has no message.

2. It’s too weird.

3. It’s outspent.

4. It’s threatening.

5. It’s a leftist, socialist, union-driven, Obama-driven, Democratic Party-driven effort.

[horses4courses]

Did anyone on this site ever show support for OWS?
I certainly didn't.

Oh, btw, here's a relevant paragraph from your article link:

"Frankly, Occupy Wall Street still has it intuitively right. It is the influence of money, greed and our twisted, too-powerful financial system that are causing so much grief for so many Americans. (Six million homes have been lost to foreclosure since 2008.)"

[Tom]

Did anyone on this site ever show support for OWS?
I certainly didn't.

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Obama did.
I suspect he posts here as mostpost.

[wisconsin]

I suspect he posts here as mostpost.


:lol: :lol: :lol:

I might believe it, but I have met mostie, so can't be.

[DJofSD]

5. It’s a leftist, socialist, union-driven, Obama-driven, Democratic Party-driven effort.

It took 'em this long to understand they were just a tool.

[rastajenk]

6. All the good-looking chicks are going to TEA party events.

[Native Texan III]

" A Fordham University poll conducted last year found that 80% of OWS respondents identified themselves as extremely liberal. One out of four considered themselves Democrats and 11% Socialists — but 39% said they didn’t subscribe to any political party."

What is an extreme liberal? One is the opposite of the other.

From the Fordham poll figures it seems some 25% of OWS may be Republicans .

The Occupy Movement was an ad-hoc, unfunded grouping that succeeded world-wide in focusing, for many months, people's and politician's attention to the very worst sides of bad capitalism. Something the spineless traditional parties had avoided. It has done its job - it is not a political party as such.

The Tea Party is already within a funded party and is more focused on very limited objectives. It certainly has party political influence but only on one party in America - no where else.

Chalk is not cheese.

[lamboguy]

6. All the good-looking chicks are going to TEA party events.
that sounds like a great reason to sign up

[boxcar]

" A Fordham University poll conducted last year found that 80% of OWS respondents identified themselves as extremely liberal. One out of four considered themselves Democrats and 11% Socialists — but 39% said they didn’t subscribe to any political party."

What is an extreme liberal? One is the opposite of the other.

From the Fordham poll figures it seems some 25% of OWS may be Republicans .

The Occupy Movement was an ad-hoc, unfunded grouping that succeeded world-wide in focusing, for many months, people's and politician's attention to the very worst sides of bad capitalism. Something the spineless traditional parties had avoided. It has done its job - it is not a political party as such.

The Tea Party is already within a funded party and is more focused on very limited objectives. It certainly has party political influence but only on one party in America - no where else.

Chalk is not cheese.

You're a riot. Many on this forum and even in in media billed the OWS as a grassroots movement. I think they had the "movement" part right. I saw it more as a BM on all thinking Americans who had values they didn't scrape up from the gutter.

Boxcar