President Obama and the Democrat Party are mistaken to embrace the Occupy movement and project it as representative of the country. They are not as random of a sampling of the population as the media would like us to believe. They are a representative random sampling of the type of kooks who typically support monarchists in a Representative Republic. They also project things onto regular folks at sidewalk level that they do, and they will not make any significant strides to increase liberty or prosperity in this nation. People like them cannot and will not advocate the policies that lead to it.
While they argue that they're for opportunity equality, there's a fundamental problem with their premise. They claim they are there to make things better for the people, but their solution requires that they first hurt some of the people in order to help others. At the same time they rail against government, they demand more of it. The government will not whither away. What was the last time a government actually withered away and left a protracted power vacuum? Each time that happens, another government comes in and conquers the previous one. Ironically enough, the protestors claim that other elements, like the TEA party, demand freedom from government. That's not the TEA party; that's anarchy. What most Americans actually seek is freedom under a government. We are smart enough to realize that we "must surrender a portion of our substance to furnish protection for the rest" but that the form of government that provides the greatest security at the lowest cost "is preferrable to all others".
One thing that frustrates me most is how leadership in the GOP echoes the phraseology of their opponents. Romney and Christie have both tried to connect with these people. At the same time, research I have seen shows they are not like us at all. A comedian I know personally who lives in New York did a mockumentary that was fascinating. So maybe it wasn't a scientific selection of those to whom he spoke or whose interviews he showed, but they are telling. Seriously? "Jews are the new Nazis". Have these people ever met a real Nazi? I have. That notion is absurd.
More scientific analyses have been done. Until I read Doug Schoen's analysis this morning, I wasn't ready to admit my knee jerk reactions towards the protests might hold water. I am not there, and the only person I know who has been there is a comedian. What I have posted so far questions their motives and methods, but Mr. Schoen is able to illustrate their mentality. His conclusions mirror my suspicions. Although his sample size is not terribly large, it's large enough to be a start.
Here is a summary of his findings:
-the Occupy movement is full of radicals and miscreants. The man in Brian Havig's video is not the only one who has brought up racist remarks about the Jews. In fact, "Wall Street Bankers" is a code phrase used by many people who are anti-Semetic.
-they preach hate and destruction of our society. They believe in the redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience, and violence. Mr. Schoen found that 52% have protested before, that 98% would resort to civil disobedience, and that 31% would resort to violence. When the police tried to enforce the law last Friday and some protestors were hurt, they railed against the cops. They are against law and order. They hate cops while they argue for a police state.
-although they claim solidarity with those on hard times, most of the protestors have jobs, although I can't imagine why their employers haven't fired them. That's not the kind of employee for which most companies are looking- someone who whines and moans when they don't get their way. If that were the case, we'd all hire children and teenagers.
-most of them are Monarchists/Statists/Socialists/Liberal in terms of the policies they represent. No matter how many are disaffected with Obama, some of them are upset he hasn't done enough. They still share a fascination with universal health care and a deep commitment to left-wing policies like: opposition to free-market capitalism and support for radical redistribution of wealth, intense regulation of the private sector, and protectionist policies to keep American jobs from going overseas. They think the rich should pay more taxes despite the fact that the rich already pay most of the taxes and some of them pay no taxes at all.
-they demand higher taxes for everyone else and bigger government as if those were magical beans that lead to a land of milk and honey.
-they have a flagrant double standard. If Steve Jobs were still alive, would they march on his house armed with their iPhones and iPads and MacBooks? Not likely. He's ok. It's only the other wealthy people with whose products and activities they take personal exception who are greedy.
If you believe in smaller government and more freedom, you are actually in the majority. Remember that news outlets show today at least what they want you to believe. Television is, after all, showmanship. As I have been saying for a year or more, most of what you see is a play. They want you to think that the Occupy movement is a plurality of America. Most Americans are not there. They are at work, earning money, paying taxes, and helping companies keep the jobs they have. Contrary to conventional wisdom, business does not exist to provide jobs. Jobs exist to support company goals. The Occupy movement is full of thieves and miscreants. It is not a mark of maturity to say "give me what I want or I will be a miscreant". That's exactly what they seem to be about.
Should forthcoming research illustrate them to be otherwise, I will alter my opinion. Meanwhile, at TEA party events, they cannot find criminals, miscreants, or anarchists, despite the media's best efforts to single out the weirdest people they can find. They claim the TEA party wants no government at all, which is not true. Most of them want the Constitution to apply even as Obama talks about everything he'd like to do to circumvent our governing document. The President even has the gall to say everything he's done has been the right decision even as he claims solidarity with people who are upset with the results of his choices. Keep your eye on the truth. Just because the protestors claim they want the same things as you doesn't make it truth. What they want is something completely alien to America. They are the fringe, the exception; you are the rule, and thank God for that.
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