Why Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party Are Opposed
From 2011.
There are a few old-time conservatives who think Occupy Wall Street can become a positive force. The same goes for a few libertarians. I do not.
There is no more possibility of an alliance between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party than there will be a Presidential ticket of Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. Neither side would agree as to who should be President and Vice President.
They agree on foreign policy. They do not agree on the power of the federal government. The fundamental issue dividing them is the size and purpose of the federal government.
Kucinich and the OWS want to cut military spending in order to increase the welfare state. They want more graduated taxes. "Tax the rich!" That is their mantra.
Ron Paul wants to shrink the state across the board. He wants lower taxes across the board.
There is no way to fuse these two movements.
The banksters and the internationalist insiders have had the Left in their hip pocket for over a century, going back to the Progressive movement, 1885 to 1920. Yes, a William Jennings Bryan type like Kucinich may show up and make some waves for a while, but they never change the system, because they want a more invasive civil government at all levels of society. Bryan fought central banking, but then was duped into lobbying Congress to pass the Federal Reserve Act. The Leftists never seem to know who is really in charge and why: big government. They always join forces with the insiders when it really matters. If they don't, they get relegated to obscurity.
Similarly, on the Right, the head-bangers are always co-opted by the insiders. The far Right always wants a larger military establishment. The far Right can no more resist the growth of the state in military affairs than the far Left can resist the growth of the welfare state.
The NWO Establishment plays both groups like a symphony orchestra. The government always gets bigger. The banksters always get richer.
The Tea Party has some members who have seen through this flim-flam by the internationalists. They oppose the big military, which is always used to extend the influence of the New World Order. But the Tea Party is divided. There are still those who want to make an exception to budget cuts: the Pentagon. They are not Ron Paul people.
Those who still favor the Pentagon have no use for Kucinich. But the OWS is pro-Kucinich. So, no Tea Party alliance with Occupy Wall Street is possible.
In short, this naive fellow does not know what he is talking about. He wants an alliance between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
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Published on November 23, 2011. The original is here.
A post on Kucinich's recent book on political corruption is here:
I agree with this member's assessment:
What does Kucinich expect? People who hold power over the lives of other people to be untainted by corruption?This man favored expanded government power---which is naked force--every step along the way of his quest.
Now he is scandalized that people have been corrupted by the power he helped give them. Anyone who wants power is corrupt.