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Posted on 11/17/2011 5:49:54 PM PST by RobinMasters
As partisans on the left and right try to co-opt and compare the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements, both sides ignore that they aren’t really that different at all. Both, in fact, hew to the same conventions as all mass movements. And as the 2012 presidential candidates — including President Obama — attempt to form their positions on each one, they’d all be wise to put them in perspective.
In Eric Hoffer’s seminal 1951 work, “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements,” the similarity is drawn with startling clarity.
The work of a self-educated gold prospector-turned-longshoreman-turned philosopher, the treatise examines important mass movements in history from the French Revolution to the Nazis. It’s also refreshingly devoid of political correctness. Hoffer describes those who may be susceptible to the allure of mass movements in practically Dickensian terms: They are either “misfits,” “spinsters” or “the inordinately selfish,” to name a few.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Nonsensical horesh1t.
What a breathtakingly stupid and ignorant analysis. Worst piece yet by SE Cupp. Her total lack of understanding of the Tea Party movement is simply inexcusable. She knows it no better than David Brooks or Kathleen Parker.
Yup. They are little more than english speaking (more or less) anarchist/brownshirt thugs and animals. Tea Partiers are Americans seeking constitutional government.
Yeah, they’re just alike except for the Occupier’s:
Deaths
Open drug use
Public sex
Public masturbation
Nudity
Rapes
Lice
Scabes
STDs
Public defecation
Assaults
Destruction of private property
Anti-semitism
Molotov coctails
Violence
No, we are not like those dependent losers. The Tea Party activists are American patriots. The OWS louts are communists/communist dupes.
...or not. At least one of us is wrong, possibly both.
I believe that the point is that both groups know that something is terribly wrong.
S,E.Cupp is really clueless
I don’t think I have read an article in a very long time based on such a faulty premise
Wish I could get my five minutes back
There are a couple of FReepers in this thread that seem to think the fleabaggers are downright heroic.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2808089/posts
As you can tell, I have zero use for their kind.
Hard to be an atheist conservative, bless her little heart......
Tea Party = producers, civilized, God/America loving people.
OWS = moochers, communist/socialist/American hating dregs of society.
Nope, don’t see it SE.
>> I believe that the point is that both groups know that something is terribly wrong. >>
Uh, no, that’s not her point at all. Or at least, that’s not her complete point at all. She made a lot of nonsensical comparisons - many of which were true of OWC but not at all true of the tea party.
She should read Coulter’s book on mobs.
I had no idea that Marxist goons and Tea Partiers were related. Did I miss something?
Oh S.E. I wonder where most of your brains went
Why you and Glenn like to Torture yourselves with giving these people credit where it isn't due I will never know.
Yeah. Actually ... I do think that there’s a little commonality ... but you’d never see OWS and the Tea Party work together because of what they DON’T have in common...it’s just too great a gap.
S E Cupp isn’t too bright.
Did anyone actually read the article?
Well they are heroic, if you want to hang them around the necks of the average democrat.
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