Tea Party co-founder supports OWS
Anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty has noticed the similarities between OWS and the Tea Party (circa 2009). A co-founder of the Tea Party, Karl Denninger, has recently expressed his support for the OWS movement:“The problem with protests and the political process is that it is very easy, no matter how big the protest is, for the politicians to simply wait until the people go home,” financial blogger Karl Denninger observed. “And then they can ignore you.”
“Well, Occupy Wall Street was a little different,” he continued. “And back in 2008, I wrote that when we will actually see change is when the people come, they set up camp, and they refuse to go home. That appears to be happening now.”
About a year ago, he wrote about how the Tea Party was hijacked, and today warned against letting that happen again:“Tea Party my ass. This was nothing other than the Republican Party stealing the anger of a population that was fed up with the Republican Party’s own theft of their tax money at gunpoint to bail out the robbers of Wall Street and fraudulently redirecting it back toward electing the very people who stole all the ****ing money!”
And finally, he addresses the issue of not having a list of formal demands:“One of the things that the Occupy movement seems to have going for it is it has not turned around and issued a set of formal demands,” he explains. “This is a good thing, not a bad thing. Everyone is looking for a set of demands. The problem is that as soon as you pipe up with a list of four or five things - and you’ve got to keep it simple and short - then somebody’s going to say, ‘Well, we gave you 70 percent of it, now go home.’ And the fact is, that’s exactly the sort of thing that happened with the Tea Party.”
“Stay on message, which is that the corruption is not a singular event,” Denninger urged. “You can’t focus in one place. You have to get the money out of politics, which is very difficult to do, but at the same time you can’t silence people’s voice.”
And there you have it. The core issue: money, and the influence that it buys. No one person (or corporation, union, etc) should have any more influence over representation than another. Every election cycle, politicians are bringing in more and more money for their campaigns. The amounts are staggering, and you can bet they get preferential treatment from said politicians. By protesting on Wall Street, not only are protesters showing their disgust with wage disparity, Wall Street's recklessness, and the crony capitalism that's been rampant for decades, they're showing Washington that they know what/where the source of the problem is. The problem is systemic, so working within the system will not do anything to address the grievances of the protesters.
“Well, Occupy Wall Street was a little different,” he continued. “And back in 2008, I wrote that when we will actually see change is when the people come, they set up camp, and they refuse to go home. That appears to be happening now.”
About a year ago, he wrote about how the Tea Party was hijacked, and today warned against letting that happen again:“Tea Party my ass. This was nothing other than the Republican Party stealing the anger of a population that was fed up with the Republican Party’s own theft of their tax money at gunpoint to bail out the robbers of Wall Street and fraudulently redirecting it back toward electing the very people who stole all the ****ing money!”
And finally, he addresses the issue of not having a list of formal demands:“One of the things that the Occupy movement seems to have going for it is it has not turned around and issued a set of formal demands,” he explains. “This is a good thing, not a bad thing. Everyone is looking for a set of demands. The problem is that as soon as you pipe up with a list of four or five things - and you’ve got to keep it simple and short - then somebody’s going to say, ‘Well, we gave you 70 percent of it, now go home.’ And the fact is, that’s exactly the sort of thing that happened with the Tea Party.”
“Stay on message, which is that the corruption is not a singular event,” Denninger urged. “You can’t focus in one place. You have to get the money out of politics, which is very difficult to do, but at the same time you can’t silence people’s voice.”
And there you have it. The core issue: money, and the influence that it buys. No one person (or corporation, union, etc) should have any more influence over representation than another. Every election cycle, politicians are bringing in more and more money for their campaigns. The amounts are staggering, and you can bet they get preferential treatment from said politicians. By protesting on Wall Street, not only are protesters showing their disgust with wage disparity, Wall Street's recklessness, and the crony capitalism that's been rampant for decades, they're showing Washington that they know what/where the source of the problem is. The problem is systemic, so working within the system will not do anything to address the grievances of the protesters.