“Tahrir Envy” Meets “Tea Party Envy” on Wall Street Posted By Roger L Simon
URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2011/10/05/tahrir-envy-meets-tea-party-envy-on-wall-street/
It’s hard to know how to react to the apparently escalating protests on Wall Street.
On the one hand you can just roll your eyes. The numbers aren’t very big, especially for New York, and every generation has its “useful idiots.” I’ve been one myself. The demonstrations appear to be just another float passing by in the grand media parade.
On the other, however, we live in incendiary times with our country, indeed the world, hanging by fingers over an economic precipice. Almost anything can happen. In fact, strike the “almost.”
That’s why the situation is particularly volatile. And it’s not reassuring that the protestors, most of them anyway, seem to have no specific ideology. Some people, notably Glenn Beck, are calling this vagueness deliberate, a ruse after which the protest will show its true (red) colors. And indeed none other than Frances Fox Piven of Cloward-Piven fame has registered her excitement [1] over the demonstrations.