[Space Patrol Hoppa]

More interesting reading is available at the link.

[Bryanw92]

>> The purpose of their protests is to protest, the romance of the protest is all the justification that it really needs.

I know some aging hippies from the 60’s. They are “outraged” over everything. It’s really their only valid emotion. They can’t be happy because there’s always something out there to be outraged at, and when they are outraged, they can’t be happy either. Even if the problem is fixed, they remain outraged that it wasn’t fixed “enough” or soon enough.

Basically, they are all insane.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Greenfield’s an excellent writer.

[MrEdd]

Well said article.

Useful idiots cease to be useful after a revolution.

[Billthedrill]

This is brilliantly written, and thanks for posting it. One is stricken nearly dumb with the utter emptiness of this putative political movement, its lack of message, of program, its inchoate rage against the symbology of oppression whose real face the protesters have never known. Even more significant is the enthusiasm with which it has been co-opted by the sitting Establishment in the form of (1) unions, who are the very apotheosis of organized commercial activity; (2) the media, whose figures enjoy a living far more approaching the 1% than any 99% those of us watching them might aspire to; (3) the Democratic party, whose members control the Senate and the Executive and who insist on portraying themselves as romantic revolutionary outsiders rather than the top-of-the-hog fat cats that they really are.

It is no real surprise that a movement this contrived and artificial finds itself co-opted by the pros - these are, after all, precisely the same terms those fat cats used to foist an entirely unqualified celebrity on a gullible electorate in 2008. Fortunately for the country, announcing victory - and they have - is not the same as actually achieving it. The election is less than a year away and the "Hey, kids, let's put on a show!" political street theater is finding its curtain in an undignified descent. The real 99% is out there and we're not being fooled, and breathless media commentators announcing that we have been doesn't make it so.

[Bellflower]

It’s an excuse to rebel against authority, ultimately God.

[wayoverontheright]

We shouldn’t be surprised that liberals gather to whine and wallow in victimhood. They’ve always gained tremendous psychological satisfaction from such protests. This is a great article that points this out clearly.

But the liberal minions always read the tea leaves (pun intended) before the supplicant media and the establishment left do.

OWS seems different because there’s an element of defeatism there.

The good news is that the Wall Street location was chosen for a purpose-to taunt the victors in what they perceive is a war they’ve lost.