Eric Cantor’s Hyper-Partisan Hypocrisy: He Hails Tea Party for "Fighting," Condemns Occupy Wall Street "Mobs" | The Nation Monday 10 October 2011 2:46 am If share values could be devised for hypocrisy, Eric Cantor’s would be soaring. When Tea Party activists swarmed Washington, DC, in 2009, the Virginia congressman hailed them with “fighting” words. Now, however, the No. 2 Republican in the House is attacking the Occupy Wall Street movement for pitting “Americans against Americans.” Article source: http://www.thenation.com/blog/16386...ils-tea-party-fighting-condemns-occupy-wall-s
It seems to me that the Tea Party was mostly about them vs the Politicians while the Occupy seems to be about them vs the 1% or them vs the Rich or them vs the Bankers which seems to me more of an Americans vs Americans thing. More power to both movements though. We'll see if the Occupy movement gets co-opted by the same things they are fighting against like I believe the Tea Party has been.
Exactly right Stu. I think the Tea Party started out with several issues that I'd agree with but was co-opted along the way by the same people that funded it in the first place.
That is the danger once a movement gets to a certain level. The money starts to flow in and that changes everything.
I think the "occupy" protests were co-opted by the far left as soon as the cameras showed up. Roseanne Barr, Michael Moore, Alec Baldwin & Susan Sarandon (excuse me if I'm leaving out any other prominent leaders of the far left fringe) stuck their faces in front of the camera and it was all down hill from there with every other far left extremist showing up to publicize their pet issue. ...and don't these lefty leaders/entertainers understand they are the exact same people the original protesters were railing against in the first place? Capitalist millionaires like Michael Moore, Roseanne Barr & Alec Baldwin come across as hypocrites when they come out to protest the millions of dollars that someone else is making.
I've heard interviews where the organizers have said specifically that they are not going down the path of the Tea party movement. They won't let themselves be co-opted by money interests. We'll see but they are going to need some oney behnd them at some point no doubt. They are well on their way to winning and that is why Cantor is so afraid of them in all of his hypocrisy.
I am all for things like this personally, whether I philosophically agree with them or not. Same as when the Tea Party started out. I see it as a way to maybe eventually (hopefully) break the 2 party - which is really 1 party in so may ways - stranglehold on our political system.
I don't know how that could come about. If the dims & Republicans basically split the country 50/50, any new party would take from one thus empowering the other and I don't think either side would let it come to that. Don't get me wrong, I am not oppossed to the concept at all, I just don't know which party would blink first. Then there's the issue of candidates. Would any viable candidate turn their back on the establishment?
About 1/3 of the country does not identify themselves with either of the 2 parties. The problem is that all the money is in the 2 parties and they would certainly continue to use that for ballot restrictions, debate restrictions and media marginalizing of any new party. So any new party would really have to begin with something like a national movement, protests, etc. Will it happen? Sure it's still a long shot because the 2 parties have such a firm control on the money and the media but the more extreme the 2 parties get and the more gridlocked things get in bad economic times that are not going to return to 'normal', the more likely a successful effort becomes.
The two major parties have stacked the legal deck to make it almost impossible to run as a third-party candidate. Until the people force referendums and pursue lawsuits to get these restrictive laws overturned, the money and the power will continue to rest with the two parties who keep taking the money and abusing the power.
I despise him. I have never been as disgusted and angered by a political figure, until now. Well. He's tied with Boehner and McConnell, but that's not a good thing, either.
