The kids from OccupyWallStreet are, um, occupying Wall Street. Or at least hanging out there.
The MSM is doing its best to promote this, portraying it as the left-wing version of the Tea Party. Of course, the Tea Party was notably lacking in disruption, misbehavior and arrests. The Tea Party is democracy in action. OccupyWallStreet and its affiliates are more like adolescent temper tantrums.
Some of you may ask, what is this all about? Good question and one I don't even think the protestors have an answer to.
As my friend Warner Todd Huston discovered a few weeks ago, the protestors themselves were not sure. They took a poll for their "one demand" and came up with around a hundred of them ("four-hour work day"?).
This weekend Citizen Outreach's David Mansdoerfer discovered this page with quite a list of demands by one participant. The list is quite a compilation of economy-killing proposals. "Guaranteed living wage regardless of employment"? That's the way to create jobs.
This page contains another, more official(?), list of demands. What many of these demands have in common are they have been on liberal wish lists for decades and require more government control over individuals and the economy, which is why they've been on liberal wish lists for decades.
Actually doesn't differ much from the Hope and Change platform when you think about it.
UPDATE: Good column from David Freddoso on why these protests are not resonating with the rest of America.
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It does make for some comedy.
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