question about the occupy movement

[freepcrusher]

does anyone here agree with my hypothesis that most occupiers are members of the 99% feeling that they have been denied the 1%?

I support the occupiers (the nonviolent ones at least) but feel that most of them are probably unemployed grad school students who wish they were making six digit incomes.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I thought this was obvious.

[Joe Republic]

You may be on to something here.

I also suspect that the Tea Party folks are mostly anti-government types who want to see dramatic reductions in entitlement spending.  I plan to write my local newspaper with this theory.

[Redalgo]

My impression - albeit not based on experience - is movements like this mostly attract principled folk who feel the current order is fundamentally unjust, broken, and in need of radical reforms, and "pre-moral" types who are more likely dogmatic and driven by self-interest. That is to say, expect some activists to be involved with sincere intent to advance the common good beside others prone to regurgitating sound bites and platitudes while expressing things that are a little embarrassing, if not cringe-worthy, for someone with well-developed moral and political convictions to hear when they support the movement in question or are associated with its participants.

Similarly with the Tea Party movement... I suspect there are hoards of RWA types intermingling with intellectual people who in many cases have very thoughtful arguments to present us with.

[bgwah]

That's certainly become the popular stereotype.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

The occupy movement is just embarrassing at this point.

[Napoleon]

The occupy movement is just embarrassing at this point.