What is this "Arab Spring" comparison? I really don't get that. Is Obama = Mubarak?
The OWS movement is not about Obama. As much as you guys wish it was. I would suggest a look in the mirror to see who OWS is protesting against.
We are also told by the likes of Douglas Rushkoff in the New York Times and the ever-reliable Naomi Klein in The Nation that it is precisely because OWS is not a political party and has no policy platform that it is powerful.
Funny shit! The exact same thing can be said about the Tea Party. Except the OWS movement is growing in leaps and bounds and the Tea Party is withering at the vine.
Unfortunately for OWS, this somewhat anarchic approach relies heavily upon organic growth for success, and such growth never came. Despite claims to the contrary, neither Zuccotti Park nor the other encampments across the country were meeting points for ordinary and concerned citizens spontaneously taking to the streets. Instead, they were a veritable convention of the usual suspects. Members of the professional Left congregated and were soon joined by a steady procession of young acolytes, whose disappointment that their expensive college educations had not shielded them from the vicissitudes of the dire economy roused them to join the witch-hunt. Then — less innocuously — the homeless, the mentally ill, and the downright criminal joined the unholy partnership. The necessary dramatis personae for a successful insurrection never showed up and, if Act II is to be more successful, Occupy is going to need to expand its base to include the general public — the sort of people who are now bustling past Zuccotti Park as they did before, as if nothing out of the ordinary had ever happened there.
Wow...this Charles C. W. Cooke is quite the writer! Look at all those big words that say absolutely nothing!
Who is this guy? Seems like he showed up out of the blue (or should it be red?) sometime in June writing for the NRO (btw - if you ever communicate with Jonah Goldberg tell him I say Hi!) and after learning how to write he went immediately after the OWS crowd, echoing all the invalid talking points you're mimicking.
So...do you know who he
really is, lilMike?
