Left light years behind the right in organizing

[Mac1337]

Everyone is comparing the tea party with Wall Street protests. I don't know where these protests are going but considering how the tea party has successfully inserted itself in the system and has developed the means to change it shows how far behind the left is. For example, the left has no mechanism to "primary" candidates they don't want. Sleeping in the streets and fighting police ain't it. Grover Norquist says it best,
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The tea party movement was formed in reaction to Obama’s massive increase in federal government spending. The movement was peaceful. No arrests. They voted out the Democrats in the House because the Republicans promised to fight against the Bush drift and Obama overdrive towards big spending.

The “Occupy Wall Street” movement began with illegal actions. Attacks on police and citizens. Blocking people trying to get to work or home. The two political movements demonstrate the difference between American conservatives and American “progressives.”

Also, check the trash left behind rallies by conservative vs. liberal interest groups.

[mattkime]

you can complete that thought after the tea party has accomplished something.

[Acer]

What a peaceful, non-interfering, tidy demonstration might look like:

[(vikm)]

Yeah, how'd that work out for the Right as they tried to play catch up last Presidential Election? Oops! That doesn't require an answer, btw.

[Mac1337]

mattkime wrote:
you can complete that thought after the tea party has accomplished something.

Took back the House and have Obama on the run. Not bad for two years of work.Those hippies have mistaken Wall Street with Tahrir Square. There is no Mubarak here. Read up on how to change the system in America.

[Chakravartin]

Dakota wrote:
[quote=mattkime]
you can complete that thought after the tea party has accomplished something.

Took back the House and have Obama on the run destroyed the country's good faith and credit. Not bad for two years of work.
Fixed that for ya.

[Mac1337]

So now that blaming Bush has worn itself out you found something else. The "good faith and credit" gets destroyed when you spend money you don't have and borrow from Visa to make your mortgage payments. Tea Party can't do that but Obama can and has.

[Chakravartin]

Dakota wrote:
The "good faith and credit" gets destroyed when you spend money you don't have and borrow from Visa to make your mortgage payments. Tea Party can't do that but Obama can and has.

Government-borrowing is not the same as consumer credit loans. The mechanisms, choices and consequences are utterly different in every respect.

You seem to think that the problem is that the federal deficit is too big. That's not the case. The main problem with our government's response to the economic downturn is that there isn't enough deficit spending and along with that, much of the deficit money that should go to public works is being diverted to support foreign wars and thus is not boosting our nation's economy.

Reducing the deficit without increases in spending on public works and public welfare projects will almost always raise unemployment and lower revenues, creating a multiplier effect that drags the economy down. Productivity generally follows output (spending), not spending-reductions.

The risk of a high deficit is inflation, but that can be managed with smart monetary policies.

It's basic macroeconomics.

[cbelt3]

Oh, Acer, way to Godwin the thread right off the bat. Good thing nobody got the image.

Dakota has a point, but Obama's been bringing in the bucks. HIs inability to engage the 'Hope and Change' team is problematic.

[Mac1337]

This thread is not about the merits or demeritsof deficit spending. It is about left's late attempt to find its own tea party. Tea party made the break with the Republican orthodoxy. Nobody is safe just because you call yourself Republican. The left is too loyal, or timid, to make a similar move. Current Democratic party bosses from Obama on down wine and dine with bankers. Can you see Reid or Pelosi in that crowd?