tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post2146170016315466008..comments2024-01-06T17:38:53.551-05:00Comments on Poli-Tea: Why the Tea Party Should Join the Occupationd.erishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09186054212519025557noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-924296214343969662011-10-13T16:09:44.491-04:002011-10-13T16:09:44.491-04:00I think you both have good points here. Sam has a ...I think you both have good points here. Sam has a good point, the Occupy Wall Streeters (err, what is exactly the plural wording for them??) and the Tea Partiers may have some significantly important differences that would make cooperation hard. Obviously the Occupy Wall Streeters on average tend to bend more to the left, and the Tea Partiers more on the right. However, as you even point out, TiradeFactionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06760660346802297769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-27528033542423248502011-10-13T15:03:30.894-04:002011-10-13T15:03:30.894-04:00I agree that the occupiers need to resist the Demo...I agree that the occupiers need to resist the Democratic embrace, and that people need to step forward from both the occupations and the TPs and at least talk to each other, ideally without labels attached. But I would resist the assumption that an inherent opposition between the two movements could only be a corporate-media invention. Some ideas and moralities are irreconcilable. The ideal wouldSamuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-74514665195403888282011-10-12T13:25:41.166-04:002011-10-12T13:25:41.166-04:00On the tax issue, I don't have any reliable an...On the tax issue, I don't have any reliable and direct evidence about the Tea Party folks in particular being willing to support new taxes. However, in my <a href="http://caivn.org/article/2011/10/12/majority-supports-taxing-rich-help-reduce-record-budget-deficits" rel="nofollow">column for CAIVN today</a>, I take a look at a poll conducted by WaPo-Bloomberg ahead of last night's GOP d.erisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016245466912407364.post-29156835394856927852011-10-12T12:10:37.391-04:002011-10-12T12:10:37.391-04:00d., I won't disagree with "should," ...d., I won't disagree with "should," but it seems, admittedly at first glance, like an irreconcilable gulf separates the two camps. I suppose that if the occupiers are believed to stand for one thing above all, it's for increasing taxes on some Americans. My understanding of Tea Partiers remains that they are adamantly opposed to tax increases. Maybe one issue shouldn't be a Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.com