Democrats May Get Their Own Destructive Tea Party Movement

[MADem]

49. OCCUPY is often tossed out there as the "opposite number" of the Tea Party, but I don't think that

is really true.

The Tea Party is a bunch of flaky, racist assholes who hate black people, brown people, immigrants of any hue, taxes, any kind of gubmint intrusion, and who think that paying for shit like schools, and road repair, and street lights is a damn waste of "their" money. They hate social programs (for everyone but their own worthy selves, of course) and they are afraid that those lib-ruls are gonna grab their guns.

The Occupy people, though, were a mix of idealists who believed in social safety nets and change and all that swell stuff, and Paulbot assholes, and anarchists, and homeless people with no political agenda beyond clean dry socks and "Can I get some of that hot food you're cooking?" While the idealists were busy doing the whole urban camping schtick, pooping in grocery bags, wasting time fighting the police over their right to freeze their asses off on the sidewalk and exasperating the hell out of most people who thought they were using their time poorly, the Paulbots and anarchists were having a field day, creating chaos, raising hell, and making the idealists look like a bunch of ineffectual tools. Had the lefties in the equation stood up, taken charge, gotten over the stupid camping, libraries and kitchen horseshit, given up the twinkle fingers drone of consensus and run the frigging thing like VVAW, they might have gotten something done. Elect leaders, assign spokespeople, don't think that getting a permit to march somehow "infringes" on freedom. That whole bullshit about being "afraid" the leaders would be targeted is bull. Fear killed that movement. If one goes down, you put up another--that's the way to roll, not ask for consensus from a bunch of anarchists or have a bunch of white campers tell a man like John Lewis he's not "qualified" to speak to them. The best demonstrations they had were union-organized and sponsored, down to the signs. That's telling.

If the Occupy lefties just told the Paulbots and anarchists to fuck themselves, to get out, to leave because their views were contrary to the whole concept of safety nets for all, they might have had a movement. Now they have a few tiny little "community actions," here and there, organized by people who should have been elevated to positions as national leaders of the Occupy movement, and they have their memories. Such a waste.