The continuing Occupy Wall Street carnival increasingly attracts support from politicians. The usual radicals lurk behind the curtains orchestrating havoc so Democrats can co-opt any purity the movement might once have claimed. Big Labor, ACORN’s successors and even George Soros have been linked to the Alinskyite chaos.
While Republicans ridicule these ungrateful recipients of capitalist riches, demagogic politicos fuel their fire in fascinating ways. To appease their base, Democrats escalate class antagonisms by demonizing wealth and promising further redistributions. But genies rarely return to their bottles. Will the upcoming Democratic convention in Charlotte mimic Chicago in 1968?
The “occupiers” resemble Lenin’s “useful idiots.” Idealists naively absorbed by bromides like social justice and equality, but who ultimately burnished a barbarous cause that was neither social nor just and never brought about equality.
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