'Occupy Wall Street and the Dems’ tea party envy

John Rossomando
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Democrats from the president on down have been quick to latch onto Occupy Wall Street and claim it as the left’s answer to the tea party.

But they do so at their own peril. The movement is about as relevant to the larger society as the Ku Klux Klan or right-wing militia because even they are able to mount rallies, but they don’t reflect anyone beyond themselves.

The same goes for “Occupy Wall Street” because it owes its origins to an online call by AdBusters, a Canadian far-left wing group that expressed hopes of creating a Tahrir Square here in America.

Not to mention, AdBusters is funded with money from the Tides Foundation, which in turn is funded by George Soros’s Open Society Project.

There is absolutely nothing new about this groups of communists, anarchists and hangers on. It is largely made up of the usual suspects like the Communist Party USA, Revolutionary Communist Party, Socialist Party USA, MoveOn.org, Democratic Socialists of America, etc.

And this is precisely why there isn’t any comparison between them and the Tea Party and why comparing them with radical extremist fringe groups like the Ku Klux Klan in terms of their broader appeal is far more accurate.

Like the Klan, these folks are only about hatred and violence. But unlike the Klan, their hatred has a broader target – each and every one of us who works for a living and who becomes successful.

If the Democrats want to latch onto a movement whose most memorable exemplar has been an unnamed guy defecating on a police car, then be my guest. It only underscores that the party of Jefferson, Jackson, FDR, and JFK has been hijacked by the far-left.

Comments

[Clara]

That's a huge amount of mis-information. I'm part of an occupation, and I don't consider myself an anarchist or a communist. I'm a hard worker, I have a job, and a good half of the people involved in the Occupation in my town are people with jobs or students; the other half are people who did work hard at their jobs until they lost them. We work for a living too, and if you read any declaration from New York or otherwise you'll see that we are COMPLETELY NON-VIOLENT and completely inclusive. We don't want to alienate ANYONE. In fact, everyone is already a part of the movement, because everyone falls into the 99 percent of the population that is deprived of basic rights because of an all-too-powerful one percent of the population that controls so much of the media and corporate wealth in this country.

We are all hard workers, and these are tough times. People without jobs are not criminals, nor are they hateful, and people who participate in these occupations are not ignorant, nor do we have a "target." Calling us "suspects" automatically draws a line in the sand between "you" and "me," when the whole point of these occupations is to get rid of those distinctions. WE are all in this together, because WE are all part of the 99 percent.

There's no reason for animosity at all, and there ARE commonalities between the tea party and the occupation: a desire for government accountability and fiscal responsibility, a stop to excessive spending, and a desire to solve problems concerning the lack of jobs in this country and income disparity. Bastardizing anyone in either group by comparing said members to Klan officials is ludicrous.