More "Occupy" Things

This is so much bullshit:

Amy Kremer, chairwoman of the Tea Party Express, says the Wall Street demonstrators “don’t even know why they’re out there protesting on Wall Street.”
“I don’t think it’s the left’s answer to the tea party movement, and there are a lot of people there that don’t support Barack Obama,” Kremer told POLITICO. “I think they’re just unhappy people that don’t know really what they want.”
Kremer insisted that the protesters have “completely unrealistic” goals and lack a unified message, and that the absence of clear objectives make it difficult to take the demonstrators seriously.

“You know, it’s really kind of bizarre. These kids are out there and have on these T-shirts that say ‘F capitalism.’ It’s really ironic that they’re out there and communicating through their gadgets that were created through competition and free enterprise and capitalism,” she said.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65410.html#ixzz1a9CbvC6R

First, there is a very typical source of confusion at the get-go. This is the Left standing up, not liberals or Democrats. There is some crossover, but this is related to the Democratic Party only insofar (and I would argue less) than the Tea Party is/was related to the Republican Party, a connection they themselves uniformly reject. So it's strange to hear their spokesperson claim they're not like the Tea Party because they don't support a leader of one of the "teams" they should ostensibly be supporting.

Secondly, I keep reading over and over and over that the protesters "lack a clear message," "aren't unified," and "don't know what they want." This is a totally nonsensical way to dismiss this movement categorically (as with the emphasis on the large numbers of young people among the protesters, as if we didn't just witness young people driving massive social and political change in the Middle East). Did the Tea Party have a clear message when they were at this stage in their development? Do they now? Furthermore, the message seems to be pretty clear. We are hearing the long-dormant voice of the Left reassert itself in this country right now. It is incredibly exciting, though no one should really be surprised at this point.

As to the opinion that demands like "the wealthy shouldn't get to make all the decisions in a democracy," "corporations shouldn't have the same legal status as people," and "the banks that ruined our economy and left a massive number of us unemployed as a result shouldn't be rewarded for those actions, but rather held accountable" are "completely unrealistic," if that is true things are darker than even I see them.

And smart phones have nothing to do with this.