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Watch this video to see how pointless Occupy Wall Street is. Instead of trying to be productive citizens and take advantage of all the liberties this country has to offer, these protesters would rather waste their time reading the Communist Manifesto and sleep in tents with apples floating in them. It is time to pack it up, go home, and try to find a job. If they were actually doing something that had meaning, I could understand, but these protesters are clearly just the modern version of hippies from the 1970s.
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First of all Gavin, the hippie subculture is more identified with the mid-1960s, and had in fact begun to wane by the 1970s. Second, as I mentioned on the show this week, I think that OWS has begun to represent much more than a hippie grab bag of grievances, although it might seem to be not much more than that. With B of A reversing it’s decision on the $5 fee, it symbolizes the power of the consumer. I have a hard time separating the B of A fee from OWS. I think they are intrinsically linked. While OWS might lack a coherent message as you argued, it represents the endemic unrest in this country. People are demanding that the government stop coddling the top 1%, and moreover they are demanding accountability from the Wall Street gamblers that got us into this mess and seem to show no remorse, instead spending their time complaining and trying to gut Dodd-Frank while continuing to make exorbitant amounts of money. That seems way more un-American to me than OWS.
If OWS is pissing off conservatives this much, it must be doing something.
Not necessarily: Congress is the perfect counterexample.