Parks and Demonstration

[mahnmut]

America cannot expect a bunch of disenfranchised park-dwellers to come up with a solution to its economic woes -- they have a political ruling class to do that.

Sooo... when the Tea Party took to the streets to "take their country back" from the evil politicians, that was an expression of their democratic right to protest, something inherently American. Right?

...But when the Occupy Wall Str rallies took to the streets to "take their country back" from the evil banks and corporations, that's suddenly the first step to some socialist fascist Nazi totalitarianism, because they're unAmerican haters of freedom. Right???

I see. Welcome to Bizarroland.

Comments

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Alphistia (see above) seems to have a slightly different picture of the Occupy Wall Str:

The Occupy Wall St kids (mostly kids) are generally white middle class people with anarcho-left sympathies who have been cheated from birth - lousy schools, colleges that rip them off every step of the way, and then NO JOBS - or the worst kinds of mcjobs, no health insurance, and a failing financial system that practically guarantees they will never get any kind of pension, much less social security.

[il-mio-gufo.livejournal.com]

All I know is that the local news channels piss me off when they report stupid shit, like an increase in thumb/finger blisters amongst the crowd due to bongo playing. those types reports completely take away from the reason for their localizing u know :(