OWS didn't fail. The Tea Party did. [View all]
I just wanted to get that out there. I just read that someone is calling OWS a 'failed movement' because...well, I am not sure why they think it failed.
How many national discussions about inequality did we have before OWS? OWS isn't 'in your face' like the Tea Party, but that doesn't mean that it failed. The root concepts that drove OWS have filtered into the national discussion. Yeah, the Tea Party gave itself a name and got some guys elected. But they also marginalized themselves by their extremism and may have killed the Republican Party for at least a decade. And what has the Tea Party ACCOMPLISHED?? What lasting legacy are they leaving behind? All the Tea Party did was slow progress for awhile. That's it. The Republican party is stepping away from them quickly and we are about to get a tax increase on the wealthiest Americans.
In the meantime, inequality is becoming of greater and greater concern on the national stage and, thanks in part to Romney's 47% comments, may have just won the GE for Obama.
Again...OWS didn't fail. The Tea Party did.
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