Some thoughts on the upcoming ignominious end to Occupy Wall Street:
…the value of the sword of Damocles is that it hangs, not that it falls. Obama told Wall Street that he was the only thing standing between them and the pitchforks. That scared them into line for a while. But now Wall Street’s sick of him, and doesn’t care. They’re not playing ball like they used to.
So he unleashed the pitchforks and what we got was the #occupy movement, a pathetic, and totally non-scary, embarrassment for the Democrats. Republicans are now hoping they’ll stay in place until November of 2012.
That Alinsky stuff just doesn’t work like it used to.
[Update a couple minutes later]
When rage becomes the machine.
Let them eat High Speed Rail!
I already miss #AttackWatch
Yes, they look ridiculous. But how many are paying attention? They have always used idiots. They remain useful. These idiots include those that are not in the city parks but still vote with them.
Yes, some are realizing that they’ve been sold a bill of goods. But that isn’t enough. The evil party has shown they can manipulate the rules better than the stupid party.
I really think stupid party aught to run candidates within the evil party. It’s been done, but it should be done more and more effectively. With focus and intent with candidates that don’t even realize they’re being used. I would never advocate such a thing except for the fact that so much is on the line. I mean for all offices.
Last presidential election I thought we got McCain because that’s who the democrats wanted to run against. Looking at this years crop I wonder how we can’t do better. Isn’t there anyone with the right principles that doesn’t also sound like an idiot?
I’m thinking not. To get to the right principles you need to war with your own ideas. That’s likely to leave a mess behind ya. Michele Bachmann comes to mind.
First, the right needs to figure out what it’s core principle are. The tea party was a good start. After that, we need to find candidates that would stick to those principles. We need smaller government, real transparency and active measures to remove crony capitalism. Do that and all the goons in the world wouldn’t matter.
Of course it’s not all about core principles. The gotchas attacks are usually not frontal assaults but to anything else they think they can make into a media circus. So beyond core issues, we have to have answers just for answers sake to counter the media attacks, but not as core issues.
I wish some candidate would tell a reporter, “I’m not a running for the supreme court and haven’t studied every case. Whatever issue comes up, I make a decision after getting the facts particular to that issue. The job I’m running for doesn’t require a genius with a computer memory. It requires somebody that can make good decisions. So please try to come up with some questions that aren’t quite so stupid.”
I think this is the wrong approach. Its “core principle” is laissez-faire. After that, it gets too messy for “core” agreement. Don’t think the situation on the Right is analagous to that on the Left. The Left is a puritanical belief system that leads toward totalitarian control via secular religion (Leftists can always be out-flanked by more pure and more extreme Leftists). The Right is just a collection of random odds and sods being rolled by the Left, or who disagree with them on any number of points. “The Party of No” is much closer to fact than fiction.
Good insight. However, not handing it all to the left requires some kind strategy.
The people that don’t want to control other peoples lives are the only ones we can trust in the position. Trust being a limited term.
PS: To his credit, Cain has been doing a lot of this, but he’s an outsider and thus, like Palin, is unacceptable to the national GOP.
OWS should ask Cindy Sheehan how things go after the media and Democrats are no longer interested in their tool.
#OWS is the Democrats. The bums squatting in the park, who were attracted by the hype, aren’t doing much actual protesting anyway.