Forum Post: "This is like the Tea Party – only it’s real...By the time this is over, it will make the Tea Party look like ... a tea party." ~Russ Feingold to the Washington Post
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 18, 2011, 10:21 p.m. EST by TLydon007
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I agree.
Excellent.
Russ Feingold for President.
We all do. Those who don't are too old or too old in Spirit and Mind.
its about time the tea party people to put down their tea cups and head out to the streets. Quit the party and join the movement for change
They never will. They'll only attend organized, legal, protest-themed events that have corporate sponsors and a designated time of departure.
ohh, how civilized of them...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66257.html
Well that's impressive coming from Feingold. Not.
Real?
This was an organized effort started by Kalle Lasn at Adbusters, a Canadian anti-capitalist group.
It was coordinated and planned by a working group consisting of the usual activist left.
It's modeled on the Spanish Idignado occupier's protests.
It was promoted by the hackivist group Anonymous.
The majority of sympathetic protests were all pre-planned and organized in advance by the same left groups.
The support by union and similar outside activist groups was pretty much all arranged in advance.
Friends in the media who were involved have been publicly outted.
You've got a bunch of kids with dredlocks hanging in a park doing twinkle fingers and trance-like chanting.
Now beyond a very few core issues (most of which aren't exactly news flashes to most people other than to mid-to upper-middle class liberal white folks working on their second doctorate at Columbia), how much support do you think this really is going to have beyond the groups already involved? ; )
Whether you believe it yet or not, you're pretty much talking to yourselves. In the spectrum you're far closer to being a 1% than a 99%.
I can see Carl Rove giggling and rubbing his hands together at the prospect of the Dems cozying up to this "movement." lol
"I can see Carl Rove giggling and rubbing his hands together at the prospect of the Dems cozying up to this "movement.""
I guess that's why KARL Rove has written editorials damning the protesters.
Also, you might want to decide whether it was "an organized effort" that was "coordinated and planned" that was "pre-planned and organized in advance"
or...
"a bunch of kids with dredlocks hanging in a park doing twinkle fingers"
It just sounds desperate and pathetic when you throw a bunch of contradictions at the protesters.
What would you expect? That he endorse them? Either way I'm sure he couldn't be happier.
Doesn't really matter how you want to phrase it. People understand the difference between a real movement that pulls in people on its own and one that's scripted. And the ability to maintain and grow will reflect that. Particularly when it's orchestrated by those with decidedly different core values versus those of most Americans and more of the story behind this gets past the current infatuation of the media.
"People understand the difference between a real movement that pulls in people on its own and one that's scripted. "
That's true...
One usually has corporate-sponsors that apply for permits, provide buses, and has a scheduled end-time because it's only a protest-themed event. According to you, that's "real" though.. Pretty pathetic when you think about it.
When did I say that was real?
It does describe pretty well the usual bussed-in SEIU protestors, as just one example, that they taped unloading at the Chicago protest. lol
"One that's scripted"
Like the Republican Tea Party?
Whether it is or not, that won't help this.