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"I encourage all my fellow Tea Partiers to join Occupy Wall Street protesters in their non-violent, peaceful protests and together demand that the Government be returned to the people. After all, this is precisely what the Tea Party was intended to be before it was taken over and marginalized by the establishment politicians."
"I encourage all my fellow Tea Partiers to join Occupy Wall Street protesters in their non-violent, peaceful protests and together demand that the Government be returned to the people. After all, this is precisely what the Tea Party was intended to be before it was taken over and marginalized by the establishment politicians."
There are lots of people in the OWS movement saying the same thing, but there are also lots who want nothing to do with the Tea Party.
To the extent that both groups are concerned with the corruption of our government and our current system of crony capitalism, they should certainly be aligned.
Some on the left claim that the Tea Party is all astro-turf, and we've seen the right say the same about OWS, but there are plenty of truly independent individuals in both movements, and they both have identified a series of problems in our current political/economic system that need to be dealt with.
Campaign finance reform, lobbying reform, finance reform, etc. The problem is that both groups have hugely different solutions/aims. The Tea Party folks want to shrink government and move towards privatization, whereas privatization is a dirty word for the OWS folks. An alliance of convenience, perhaps. Tough to see it persisting for very long, though.
There are lots of people in the OWS movement saying the same thing, but there are also lots who want nothing to do with the Tea Party.
To the extent that both groups are concerned with the corruption of our government and our current system of crony capitalism, they should certainly be aligned.
Some on the left claim that the Tea Party is all astro-turf, and we've seen the right say the same about OWS, but there are plenty of truly independent individuals in both movements, and they both have identified a series of problems in our current political/economic system that need to be dealt with.
Campaign finance reform, lobbying reform, finance reform, etc. The problem is that both groups have hugely different solutions/aims. The Tea Party folks want to shrink government and move towards privatization, whereas privatization is a dirty word for the OWS folks. An alliance of convenience, perhaps. Tough to see it persisting for very long, though.
This, quite honestly.
If they can get over the partisanship, the Tea Party and OWS ultimately have the same goals.
Whether or not that's the direction we WANT for America, remains to be seen.
"I encourage all my fellow Tea Partiers to join Occupy Wall Street protesters in their non-violent, peaceful protests and together demand that the Government be returned to the people. After all, this is precisely what the Tea Party was intended to be before it was taken over and marginalized by the establishment politicians."
If you read the diclaimer they only claim to be one of the original tea parties which is quite vague. In fact the piece is not really signed as authored by anyone.I could do the same thing claiming the same. But clearly the goals are not the same. The OWS is made up of alot of different liberal groups with different goals. The Tea Party is a smaller federal government with less control over indivdual rights.No matter what the cause the OWS is clearly made up of liberal big government and central control groups.Tea Party doesn't endorse wall street but doesn't want to centrally control it by federal government.Complete different movements aimed at completely different end goals.
Why would the Tea party express solidarity with America-hating Marxists? There's something wrong with this picture.
>American hating
Apparently, disliking broken capitalism means you hate America.
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