Occupy Wall Street is this year’s tea party (with a BIG exception)

[trof]

Protesters seek political process that doesn’t exclude them
By David Weidner, MarketWatch

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The revolution just might be televised, after all.

More than two weeks after a band of young people began camping out in the shadow of the New York Stock Exchange, the movement to remake America’s inequitable financial system is growing

It’s been called the Woodstock of Wall Street, but that’s hardly an apt comparison. The gathering at Max Yasgur’s farm 42 years ago was built on a generation looking for peace, love, some drugs and acid rock. The kids today are looking for real, tangible change of the capitalist sort. They’re organized, lucid and motivated.

Actually, they have more in common with the tea-party movement than the hippie dream, with one key difference: They’re smart enough to recognize the nation’s problems aren’t simply about taxes and the deficit.

They want jobs. They want the generation in power to acknowledge them. They want political change. They want responsibility in a culture that abdicates it. They want a decent future of opportunity.

If that isn’t American, then what is?
More:
http://www.marketwatch.com/Story/story/print?guid=7BC78714-EDD3-11E0-9CD6-002128040CF6

[brentspeak]

1. The most immediate difference between the two: OWS is actually real

[malaise]

3. and they can spell

:evilgrin:

[Glimmer of Hope]

4. Yes and the signs are not full of hate.

[bluestateguy]

2. Just wait until politicians start trying to piggy back on to it

I am actually not looking forward to that.