“Occupy Wall Street” and the “TEA Party” Movements

I’ve been pleased to see various goups of frustrated people rising up to confront the challenges that we face as a nation. I think that the two groups, Occupy Wall Street and the TEA Party, have more in common than you might see at face value. There are people yearing for freedom in both groups, both economically and poiticially. Whether they succeed or fail depends on if they’re able to capture the imaginations of members of the rapidly shrinking middle class and independent voters. The independence of the “Occupy” movement is crucial to its ultimate success. So far we’ve watched as the TEA Party has been effectively silenced by members of the mainstream media and used as a means to an end by Republican politicians. We are seeing the same thing being attemped by Democrats and the media with regards to the “Occupy” movement. Both groups have extremist elements that are easy targets for the meida to lampoon. It’s the “middle” though, the “heartland” Americans, who will define whether the movements can effect real change verses just making a big noise and nothing else. Focus on the enemy of the people in the form of a fascistic Government-Big Business partnership is necessary to protect all of our freedoms, and we should never lose sight of that.