reply to post by impressme
This whole defense of OWS seems amazingly hypocritical to me. I was one of a tiny handful of people attempting to defend the tea party before they
were hijacked and then smeared into submission by the media. But now that the same exact thing is happening to OWS people on ATS are coming to their
defense. Thats good. But I want to know where they were back when the Tea Party was getting hijacked and smeared in the same exact way. They were also
a wide swath of different people with a long list of complains about the government.
The difference between OWS and TP is their solutions. OWS has something ranging from no solutions to using the force of government to force positive
change whether or not people agree (yes I am biased against that), while the Tea Party believes the solution is to bring back government spending from
tyranny levels of 46% of GDP to something close to free-market levels.
Since those solutions are basically in opposition, I don't see how TP protesters could ever get along with OSW protesters, except on one issue which
is ethical shopping practices. For example the Tea Party people could attend an OSW rally to encourage alternatives to shopping with US dollars. The
OSW protesters could attend a Tea Party rally and encourage the fair trade label.


