Occupy Wall Street: Red October

18 10 11 - 20:34

The protesters have a distinct ideology and are bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies...Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn't represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse. Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence. Half (52%) have participated in a political movement before, virtually all (98%) say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their goals, and nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda.

The vast majority of demonstrators are actually employed, and the proportion of protesters unemployed (15%) is within single digits of the national unemployment rate (9.1%).

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What binds a large majority of the protesters together—regardless of age, socioeconomic status or education—is a deep commitment to left-wing policies: opposition to free-market capitalism and support for radical redistribution of wealth, intense regulation of the private sector, and protectionist policies to keep American jobs from going overseas.

The Wall Street Journal

fifteen comments

The future... Cornelius (URL) - 18-10-’11 20:42

Too bad their immature brains can't envelop the fact that if businesses (big or small) are taxed and regulated up the asshole, the jobs they're "fighting" for will continue not existing. That and a darth of population control policies, i.e., family planning and immigration, are two of many icebergs sinking this country. Maybe the college graduate protesters w/o jobs should do like many Americans of foregone years have done: Start at the bottom of retail or manual labor fields and work up the ladder. But no, they're too good for that, and that would be unfair to their $2.50 an hour illegal Mexican friends. metrofag - 18-10-’11 21:55

Exactly. The solutions to many of this countries problems would immediately be shot down under a hail of "unfair!" "racism!" blah, blah. I seriously can't tell what is trying to be accomplished here.I can hear the liberals responding now... PooPe - 18-10-’11 22:22

Political Correctness Lives: British authorities threatened Iain Turnbull, 63, with a fine (equivalent of $1,530) in August because he refused to complete the mandatory census earlier this year. Turnbull, from Wales, was protesting that the government, intending to be progressively "inclusive," made available census questionnaires and instructions in such languages as Urdu, Punjabi and Tagalog -- but not Welsh (one of Britain's native languages, spoken by a half-million citizens). [BBC News, 8-12-2011] Fair - 18-10-’11 23:06

"and protectionist policies to keep American jobs from going overseas.

I support the OCW with this idea. Big businesses are sending jobs that illiterate Americans can do to overseas like Taiwan. It's cheap labor yes but it's far from being altruistic and it's very un-American.

Also, FUCK CULTURE! We can send them to war but also send the black thugs, drug cartels and white nationalists and this country will be fine. hipster, hessian morbidity - 19-10-’11 06:59

Occupy my cock with your mouth. Billy Bob - 19-10-’11 09:54

I'm a poor man with no value in this modern life. That is until I put my feelings towards the U.S. aside and realized the military is still KICKASS. Levy_Spearmen - 19-10-’11 15:29

Who the fuck cares SHUT UP ALREADY. Work 9-5, hit up the club every night, go home with some hoe and do it again fuckk yeaahhhhhh smoke dat shit if you bored hahahaha Bling bling bling - 19-10-’11 19:23

So a financial journal read primarily by those who are advantaged within a highly unbalanced economic system is claiming those who protest the reality of 90% of wealth being controlled by JooPe (URL) - 20-10-’11 04:08

hey look at that, this site actually DOES deliberately trim my character limmit because it cannot handle articulate, contesting responses. Typical machiavellian neocon bullshit. JooPe (URL) - 20-10-’11 04:09

And @PooPe, when i argue with neocons i am liberal, with liberals i am neocons, with communists i am a capitalist and vice versa. Obviously, i cannot be all those things, and in fact am not any of these things, NT. JooPe (URL) - 20-10-’11 04:11

Yeah? Fuck you. Levy_Spearmen - 20-10-’11 08:58

Yes, JooPe, life is just sooooooo unfair. There's nothing new under the sun bub, so honestly you wont be saying anything that A) anybody gives a fuck about, and B) hasn't already been said by some other dumbass troll. Waisting your time anyway, grow up - 20-10-’11 16:53

JooPe is mad. lol - 20-10-’11 18:20

JooPe is a stupid emo punk obviously - 20-10-’11 19:26