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Little-Acorn
10-05-2011, 07:32 PM
Looks like even most leftists can't stand the puerile whining of the so-called "people's movement".

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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100108713/the-teenage-moralism-of-the-occupy-wall-street-hipsters-almost-makes-me-ashamed-to-be-left-wing/

The teenage moralism of the Occupy Wall Street hipsters almost makes me ashamed to be Left-wing

by Brendan O'Neill
Last updated: October 3rd, 2011

Occupy Wall Street, the gathering of angry actors, graphic designers and various other hipsters in the financial districts of New York City, might just be the most degenerate Left-wing movement of recent times. Its weird demands, plastered across tongue-in-cheek placards and on super-cool, self-pressed t- shirts, capture the descent of the modern Left into the cesspool of victimology, conspiracy-mongering and disdain for mass society and its allegedly dumb inhabitants. Far from representing anything that I, a Leftie, would recognise as progressive and humane, this gaggle of rich kids spouts little more than snobbery and fear, seemingly incapable of deciding whom they loathe the most: greedy fat bankers or the dumb fat public.

Occupy Wall Street claims to be a mass workers’ movement, but it’s nothing of the sort. It is in fact a tiny, self-selected group of self-righteous, mostly middle-class activists who have failed to win over large sections of the American public to their “cause” – which isn’t surprising when you consider that on the rare occasion that these trendy banker-bashers talk about the American public, they do so with a metaphorical peg on their snouts. An article on the Occupy Wall Street website claims “the working class in this country has been brainwashed by MSM, Fox News and the Right-wing propaganda machine”. It says everyday Americans, being stupid, do not understand what socialism is, because “they have been emotionally brainwashed against it”.

And so it falls to the cool, fashionable, oh-so-enlightened activists of Occupy Wall Street to help “de-programme people against the brainwashing they’ve experienced”. That is, the oiks must be re-educated by the hipsters. The little people must have their minds cleaned out by their moral and fashion superiors. Occupy Wall Street mashes together the outlook of Kim Jong-Il with the politics of Susan Sarandon, giving rise to a weirdly hippyish yet authoritarian gathering of slackers-cum-elitists.

When they aren’t pouring bile on to the allegedly brainwashed masses, the occupiers spend their time spreading all sorts of demented conspiracy theories about modern political life. “Corporations… run our governments”, they claim, indulging in a David Icke-like fantasy that faceless men-in-suits puppeteer the political sphere. Apparently these evil men, not content with making squillions of dollars and starting billions of wars, have also “poisoned the food supply through negligence”, inflicted “cruel treatment on countless non-human animals”, and “purposefully covered up oil spills”.

It sounds like an old episode of Knight Rider, where Michael Knight and Kit would always happen upon some Hicksville village in which a fat, cigar-chomping bloke in a Stetson was evilly making money by any means necessary. That such childish moralism, such a before-the-watershed view of life and politics, now informs what is being labelled the most important radical movement in America would be funny if weren’t so surreal.

Once upon a time, being Left-wing meant exposing the structural problems with capitalism and putting forward some solutions for fixing or overhauling them. Today, if Occupy Wall Street is anything to go by, it simply means getting all super-moralistic about evil bankers and corporate bigwigs, who apparently are responsible for every ill in the world. Forget analyses of society or programmes for change – these occupiers just want to get their rocks off by pointing a collective finger at billionaires while screaming “Waaaah!”.

It’s more like a two-minute hate than a principled campaign, more a tantrum than a protest, the aim of which is to assuage the inchoate moralistic fury of the sons and daughters of the East Coast bourgeoisie who look at mass America and its inhabitants and feel nothing but pity and disgust.

These campaigners are nothing like workers’ movements of old, which brought together principled men and women in a campaign for change; instead they have merely elevated the teenage screech of “I hate you and I wish you were dead!” into a political rallying cry. No wonder the vast majority of Americans are blocking their ears.

Kathianne
10-05-2011, 08:02 PM
Looks like even most leftists can't stand the puerile whining of the so-called "people's movement".

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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100108713/the-teenage-moralism-of-the-occupy-wall-street-hipsters-almost-makes-me-ashamed-to-be-left-wing/

The teenage moralism of the Occupy Wall Street hipsters almost makes me ashamed to be Left-wing

by Brendan O'Neill
Last updated: October 3rd, 2011

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and he is their president:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204524604576608690389452476.html




<small>OCTOBER 4, 2011</small>

The President of ContemptTo Barack Obama, America is lovable in proportion to the love it gives him in return.

By BRET STEPHENS




Nixon was tricky. Ford was clumsy. Carter was dour. Reagan was sunny. Bush 41 was prudent. Clinton felt your pain. Bush 43 was stubborn. And Barack Obama is . . .


Early in America's acquaintance with the man who would become the 44th president, the word that typically sprang from media lips to describe him was "cool."
(http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204524604576608690389452476.html#)



Cool as a matter of fashion sense—"Who does he think he is, George Clooney?" burbled the blogger Wonkette in April 2008. Cool as a matter of political temperament—"Maybe after eight years of George W. Bush stubbornness, on the heels of eight years of Clinton emotiveness, we need to send out for ice," approved USA Today's Ruben Navarrette that October. Cool as a matter of upbringing—Indonesia, apparently, is "where Barack learned to be cool," according to a family friend quoted in a biography of his mother.


The Obama cool made for a reassuring contrast with his campaign's warm-and-fuzzy appeals to hope, change and being the ones we've been waiting for. But as the American writer Minna Antrim observed long ago, "between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt." When it comes to Mr. Obama, boy does it ever.


We caught flashes of the contempt during the campaign. There were those small-town Midwesterners who, as he put it at a San Francisco fund-raiser, "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who are not like them." There were those racist Republicans who, as he put it at a Jacksonville fund-raiser, would campaign against him by asking, "Did I mention he's black?"

There was the "you're likable enough, Hillary," line during a New Hampshire debate. But these were unscripted digressions and could be written off as such.

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Only after Mr. Obama came to office did it start to become clear that contempt would be both a style and method of his governance. Take the "mess we have inherited" line, which became the administration's ring tone for its first two years.


"I have never seen anything like the mess we have inherited," said the late Richard Holbrooke—a man with memories of what Nixon inherited in Vietnam from Johnson—about Afghanistan in February 2009. "We are cleaning up something that is—quite simply—a mess," said the president the following month about Guantanamo. "Let's face it, we inherited a mess," said Valerie Jarrett about the economy in March 2010.


For presidential candidates to rail against incumbents from an opposing party is normal; for a president to rail for years against a predecessor of any party is crass—and something to which neither Reagan nor Lincoln, each of them inheritors of much bigger messes, stooped.
Then again, the contempt Mr. Obama felt for the Bush administration was merely of a piece with the broader ambit of his disdain. Examples? Here's a quick list:

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fj1200
10-05-2011, 11:11 PM
Looks like even most leftists can't stand the puerile whining of the so-called "people's movement".

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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100108713/the-teenage-moralism-of-the-occupy-wall-street-hipsters-almost-makes-me-ashamed-to-be-left-wing/

The teenage moralism of the Occupy Wall Street hipsters almost makes me ashamed to be Left-wing

by Brendan O'Neill
Last updated: October 3rd, 2011

I love this, an unashamed Progressive that doesn't automatically accept "teenage moralist" Progressives just because they happen to support some of the same things. If you're going to believe in something and advocate change then at least know why.

Thunderknuckles
10-06-2011, 01:36 AM
LOL "teenage moralist"

Defintion: I got no skin in the game but I'm entitled to have everything you do and I shouldn't have to work my ass off for it.

red states rule
10-06-2011, 04:18 AM
http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/tmdsu11100420111004095327.jpg

Little-Acorn
10-09-2011, 12:20 PM
http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/lb1006cd20111006044935.jpg

red states rule
10-10-2011, 02:34 AM
Obama's re-election staff in the liberal media are worried if Obama comes out and supports the hippies it may hurt his re-election chances

I guess they have not heard that Obama has damaged his re-election chances by his job performance over the last 2 1/2 years

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Kathianne
10-10-2011, 08:01 AM
If this story pans out, the Democrats are playing a dangerous game, this will at best throw the moderates towards the right:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/democrats-seek-occupy-wall-street-movement/story?id=14701337


Democrats Seek to Own 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement

ANALYSIS By RICK KLEIN (http://abcnews.go.com/author/rick_klein) (@rickklein (http://twitter.com/rickklein)) —
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2011





Occupation can lead to ownership, whether or not you want it.


The spread of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement was met with initial hesitation in both the Democratic and Republican parties. That might be an appropriate response to any protests aimed squarely at the establishment, particularly those with goals that are diverse and diffuse as those of the protesters.


But a consensus is emerging among Democrats that the "Occupy" movement is worth tapping into (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/gop-rep-broun-occupy-wall-street-is-attack-upon-freedom/), even helping along and joining with in some instances.


"I support the message to the establishment," House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on ABC's "This Week." "Change has to happen. We cannot continue in a way that does not -- that is not relevant to their lives. People are angry."


To Democrats eager for a liberal antidote to the Tea Party energy that lifted Republicans to power last year, the "Occupy" rallies that started in New York last month and have spread to cities nationwide are tempting to embrace...

fj1200
10-10-2011, 12:29 PM
If this story pans out, the Democrats are playing a dangerous game, this will at best throw the moderates towards the right:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/democrats-seek-occupy-wall-street-movement/story?id=14701337
(http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/democrats-seek-occupy-wall-street-movement/story?id=14701337)
"I support the message to the establishment," House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on ABC's "This Week." "Change has to happen. We cannot continue in a way that does not -- that is not relevant to their lives. People are angry."

Pelosi IS the establishment.

red states rule
10-11-2011, 03:25 AM
http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/GM111009CLR-WallSt.P20111010031840.jpg