May 21, 2012
Aspiring entrepreneur and student liberty activist.
I'm an American underwater in debt and with a stagnant income. Which group should I support: the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street?
Kevin Duewel To make it clear, I did not mean to insinuate that the Communist Party or some antisemitic nuts are representative of OWS. And I appreciate you recognize the nuts are not representative of what the Tea Party was organized to represent either. The ...
Kevin Duewel Peter -- I do share your pessimism for the use of politics in society, and I think it is fair to say political recourse is used too often for selfish motives. Though I would not say it is always the case, and I would expect you to be even handed enou...
Kevin Duewel The number of regulations certainly matters to economic vitality, George. If the cost of understanding and compliance is more than the cost of starting or doing business, then you won't have entrepreneurs jumping in to the market to grow the eco...
Kevin Duewel Charles and David Koch are die hard believers in the message of liberty and free markets. If you are going to have any businessmen helping to fund or organize your movement, even a movement against the competition effacing collusion of business and g...
Kevin Duewel Peter -- Here is evidence from the Washington Post on some of the fringe elements in OWS including endorsement by the American Nazi Party of OWS: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/occupy-wall-street-does-anyone-care-about-the-ant...
Kevin Duewel I explain OWS and TP as from the same stock. OWS is symptomatic of the economic circumstances that arose from the fiscal, monetary, and economic problems the TP protested. You are right, it is not, us contra them. The different policy suggestions out...
Kevin Duewel Warner, you are right to clarify that the astroturf was taken off guard by the TP. Though they do not run it, they increasingly fund it, and conservative pundits and politicians increasingly have taken the microphone for its agenda. Though I'd l...
Kevin Duewel I am not sure it can contribute much to the political dialogue in a constructive way. OWS is in many ways symptomatic of the monetary and fiscal problems of the day (ironically the very problems the Tea Party protests). As a response from a strata of...
Kevin Duewel Funny you mention that, Peter, there are some libertarians among the OWS folk yet. They and many other moderates will ditch if OWS ever does solidify a platform of "higher taxes ... student debt forgiveness ... [and] well-funded effort to put pe...
Kevin Duewel Americans For Prosperity, a Koch funded 501(c)4 and Freedom Works came into the Tea Party movement in a big way by the 2010 Tax Day Tea Party, but no, I can tell you as one of the organizers of the 2009 in Sacramento, we were quite jealous of our ide...
Kevin Duewel Peter Rothberg writes that the defining feature of Occupy Wall Street is its independence, but he misses an important point in history of the Tea Party. At the beginning of the Tea Party (and by beginning look back to the Tax Day Tea Party in 2009, l...
I'm an American underwater in debt and with a stagnant income. Which group should I support: the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street?
Kevin Duewel To make it clear, I did not mean to insinuate that the Communist Party or some antisemitic nuts are representative of OWS. And I appreciate you recognize the nuts are not representative of what the Tea Party was organized to represent either. The ...