Update:

And to confirm my take,  take a look at the team that’s going to “reform the Fed”: Bernie Sanders, Joseph Stiglitz,  William Black, Dean Baker,  etc. and then, get this, Jeffrey Sachs.  Democrat “homies,” in other words.

ORIGINAL POST

I am tired of the comparisons of OWS to the Tea Party.

The Tea-Party was an original and genuinely intellectual movement (yes, the initial Tea Party was driven by ideas) that essentially came out of the conservative Christian old right. It ideological core came out of the old John Birch Society, the Patriot movement, home-schoolers and such like.

Occupy Wall Street, on the other hand,  comes out of the same old media elites, think-tanks, foundation activists and Hollywood-MSM complex that rejected and smeared the Tea Party in the most vicious way, co-opted whatever part of the message it could put to its own use, and, starting from 2008, has, with its vast global network of civil society activists and its unparalleled media clout, come up with its own movement, one that will offer nothing more than what the same elites who run foundation activism, want.

The real template for Occupy Wall Street is not the Tea Party, but “Yes We Can”, the “grass-roots” movement that elected another “dark knight”, Obama…and that has continued to be used in the civil society and human rights community, world wide.