Generation Mutant: Occupiers are the Natural Spawn of the Progressive Movement

Townhall.com ^ | November 20, 2011 | Derek Hunter

[Travis McGee]

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[musicman]

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[FreeAtlanta]

These knuckleheads don't know what they are asking for when they call for war. Will Bill Ayers be one of their first martyrs, or will he and the other "leader" agitators hide in the back while the pawns are sacrified?

[DTogo]

It's all fun and games against LEOs who have to play by the rules: cuff, Mirandize, arrest, release.

A "class war" against private citizens who exercise their 2nd Amendment Rights would end quickly and badly for these miscreants.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The second paragraph says it all.

[blueunicorn6]

Old Bill is out there lying about his age. If he lies about his age, what else is he lying about? I love these old guys sitting around in their stupid hats in coffee shops drinking $5 coffees and whispering about the dictatorship of the proletariat. “Look girls, I’m darkly mysterious and dangerous. Wanna hop in the sack and get an A in my class?”

[Excellence]

It’s stupid to think you can bring people to your cause by obstructing their movements or annoying them in the public square.

That is where the writer is wrong. In fact, obstructing their movement and annoying them in the public square is exactly how communists take power and hold it.

If it were not for the pop-unders, I would go to Townhall and say this to the author, but I've become tired of the Undertone ads crashing my computer, and have sworn off Townhall.

[avenir]

“But progressives are patient and determined. They know one day the Participation Ribbon Generation will have children of their own. And those children won’t find counter-indoctrination examples at home many children have now.”

One major underlying problem in generational “acting up” is spoiling at home, and the consequent surly ingratitude it fosters. One generation succeeds against great odds and makes much sacrifice, then proceeds to ruin the next because they “don’t want them to suffer like we did”. Huge mistake: “A little sleep. a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—and poverty will come on you like a bandit, and scarcity like an armed man.” Proverbs 6:10-11 . Poverty of character is the real problem.

Add to this the mental/emotional/spiritual vagabond class created by massive divorce and you have a bunch of angry souls ripe for manipulation.

Then again, this very cauldron often produces a rock-solid conservative who turns against the false teachings of his generation.

[StAnDeliver]

Good start, great premise, devolved into a rant. His editor needs to jerk the slack out of him...

[jcsjcm]

[thirst4truth]

Zuccotti Park has been filled with people who’ve been coddled their whole lives, who’ve never been told they’re wrong, who’ve been raised to pursue feeling over logic. They’re being confronted with an uncertain future, and its doubly scary for them because they never have been allowed to face the consequences of failure.

A description of Obama to a tee.

[Iron Munro]

[loveliberty2]

“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.” ― John Adams

[Baynative]

[jmacusa]

Actually communists hold power by creating a health care system where none had existed previously as the Russian communists did in 1918. As Lenin said “Everyone gets sick’’. Create the system and then determine who gets health care and who doesn’t and to what degree and quality they get. In addition you amass an enormous data base on everyone too. That’s why Obama is pushing so hard for Obamacare. It’s the corner stone of his Marxist agenda.

[Iron Munro]

[Alberta's Child]

Interesting photo. These "Occupy" demonstrations are nothing more than opportunities for marginal people to do things in groups that they'd never think of doing alone.

If someone ever told me: "Hey, I slept in a park in Manhattan last night" . . . I'd say: "You're out of your 'effing mind. What are you, some kind of heroin junkie?" . . . which is why nobody with any sense of self-respect would ever admit to doing such a thing.

But somehow it's OK to spend weeks on end living like a bum in the park -- as long as you're part of some kind of "movement" like Occupy Wall Street.

[Travis McGee]

Good point. There is always strength in numbers.

[Travis McGee]

It would end badly for thousands if not millions on both sides. There is nowhere to hide, and more than enough sniper rifles to go around.