Don Roach: Too Many Vacancies in Occupy Movement
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
I walk past Burnside Park in Providence everyday on my way to the train station. From the early days with the Ron Paul & socialism signs to yesterday signs up talking about legalizing skateboarding, the Occupy movement has tried to be all things to all people.
Generally when that happens, you’re nothing to no one. I wrote a few weeks ago about the Occupy movement linking with the Tea Party to their mutual benefit. To the shock of most of you that hasn’t happened.
In fact not much has happened within the movement. Before my liberal friends get all in a hissy here are a few things the movement has done in the past couple of months:
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- On November 17th the movement supported a resolution at Providence City Hall to lift the curfew at Burnside Park
- On November 18th they held a protest in front of Textron. From their website, “Textron moves jobs to China and sells weapons to bad regimes.”
I’m really shaking my head. I’m sorry Occupy supporters but where is this movement going? The signs say they are for the 99% but protesting Textron? Do you really believe that 99% of Americans are against Textron? Come on, man!
Alright, maybe the 99% is more anecdotal than anything and the real figure is closer to 80%. Still from the months that have ensued it seems that the Occupy movement is nothing more than a left wing sit-in. The most reliable data I could find shows that liberals make up 22% of the electorate, nowhere close to 99%. It’s not even a quarter of 99%.
And perhaps it’s my own naiveté that believed the Occupy movement could be more than just what it appears to have become – a bastion of left wing thought complaining about everything under the son and doing anything but being representative of the 99%. Unfortunately, it seems as though that is exactly what the Occupy movement has become.
So what now?
The protests, which have spread worldwide, are likely to continue and perhaps the only legal battles the Occupy movement will win are battles to remain in the parks they inhabit. I mean not to trivialize the Occupy movement but only to say that the 99% rhetoric needs to go. It’s a movement that seeks to shift things to the left – no more, no less.
And for that, this movement deserves the same length of attention that you’ve spent reading this piece.
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