DNC emails

[SunsetBengal]

(07-23-2016, 09:42 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: The TEA Party "rise" mostly had to do with perceived liberal overreach - Obama, Pelosi and Reid those first two years steamrolled Repubs and made practically no attempt to work with them because they thought the Repub party was dead and they wouldn't have to work with them, maybe ever again.  Many candidates who really shared very little in common with core TEA Party principles simply hitched their wagon to a grass roots movement that took off with, as you said, Ron Paul's 2008 campaign.

If the Occupy Wall Street crowd really understood what caused the recession, they would have also been camped outside Washington, the Fed and Freddie/Fannie.  For whatever reason, "Occupy DC" was barely a footnote.  Well, actually, I think that reason is pretty obvious.

Really nobody is against a "humane standard of living", although I think there's a pretty reasonable debate to be had of what that standard is.  And being against writing blank checks to the govt and against reckless and wasteful spending doesn't mean one is anti-poverty, or anti-military, or whatever else is used to demonize people that demand fiscal responsibility.

They don't want to hear that their beloved progressive saviors are actually part of what is keeping them down.  Heck, most of the occupy crowd likely doesn't even realize that The Federal Reserve is not part of the US government at all.