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The difference between conservative and leftist grassroots movements

October 4, 2011 by GayPatriot

In a piece on Roseanne Barr, Ed Morrissey explains:

Just remember that when conservatives organize into grassroots movements, it’s almost always about protecting their own property and individual liberty.  When leftists decide to start grassroots movements, like OccupyWallStreet or Barr’s example of leftist populism, it almost always involves seizure of property, threats of violence, and eventually re-education camps and the guillotine.

And yet it’s those conservatives protests which our friends in the mainstream media most often accuse of violence.

SOMEWHAT RELATED:  James Taranto observes:

No matter how these guys try to hype it, a left-wing political mob is a dog-bites-man story. For at least 40 years lefties have routinely mounted protests for fun and profit–rallying for a nuclear freeze, against various and sundry wars, against the World Trade Organization and other international financial agencies, against the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. On the right, by contrast, with the exception of the antiabortion movement, there is no permanent protest culture or infrastructure. That’s why the Tea Party was important and newsworthy.

Filed Under: Media Bias, Tea Party

Comments

  1. Naamloos says

    October 4, 2011 at 4:52 am - October 4, 2011

    I wrote a post on a similar subject after Dick Cheney’s visit to Vancouver brought out the left-wing nutjobs who proceded to assault visitors to the location where Dick Cheney’s event was held.

    I’m convinced that these people travel around looking for things to protest. And these protests are ugly; they’re not the typical protests where people stand still peacefully holding signs. These people get in your face, and loudly yell very judgemental things like “do you have no moral compass?”

    To me, it seems counter-productive to protest in such a way, because these people are radicals, and their actions do not reflect well on their credibility. As I said before, average people likely do not take their views very seriously.

    Compare that to tea party protesters. They are not “professional protesters.”

  2. ILoveCapitalism says

    October 4, 2011 at 4:56 am - October 4, 2011

    Hardcore leftists are motivated, above all, by the desire for power over others. (How do I know? By observation, including the study of history.)

    Softcore leftists are motivated by the desire for cheap grace – their desire to gain a sense of belonging and/or salvation the easy way, just by professing to care about the politically correct set of beliefs.

    Softcore and hardcore leftists join and work together, by means of projecting their own worst tendencies onto people who stand for individual rights to life, liberty and property – people who don’t need the leftists, and whose lives of prudence and productivity would otherwise stand as a reproach to the leftists.

  3. V the K says

    October 4, 2011 at 5:56 am - October 4, 2011

    Very astute, ILC. What is especially galling is the arrogant assertion by the occupiers that they represent the “99%” of the population that is supposedly being exploited by the 1% of the wealthiest people. Exactly when did 99% of the American people elect a bunch of selfish, greedy hippies to represent us?

  4. V the K says

    October 4, 2011 at 5:56 am - October 4, 2011

    Make that a “handful of selfish greedy hippies.”

  5. V the K says

    October 4, 2011 at 6:18 am - October 4, 2011

    Remember when “occupation” meant “job?”

  6. TnnsNe1 says

    October 4, 2011 at 10:49 am - October 4, 2011

    Another big difference : Tea Party rallies are held outside of “normal” working hours. Leftist protests are held during “during” normal working hours. Draw your own conclusion.

  7. ILoveCapitalism says

    October 4, 2011 at 11:22 am - October 4, 2011

    What is especially galling…

    I would have gone with “stupid”. Good comment otherwise, though 😉

    Why “stupid”? Well, they’re protesting Obama’s top donors. Actually, let’s think about that. Are they protesting Goldman-Sachs and George Soros? Or are they steering clear of G-S and Soros? Are they tacitly exempting the biggest Obama donors?

    My point is that, if ever you could make a case for bad Wall Street elites using political power to rape the average American (on Main Street), you would make that case about… Goldman-Sachs and George Soros. And the other Democrat billionaires. The Solyndra guy. Or Herb and Marion Sandler, of Golden West who were aggressive rapists in the housing bubble.

    Bankster-LEFTISTS are in charge right now. An unholy alliance of Big Government, Big Banking, and (third-tier member) Big Labor, that uses the media and the Democratic Party as political enablers. And most of the world doesn’t know it… included these dim-witted OccupyWallStreet thugs. They’re already in charge. Their world is already happening – and they’re protesting it. Remember the Keyser Sose line, “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist”? That’s what the bankster-leftists do. They commit depredations on Main Street… then line up a bunch of hippies (I don’t doubt that some of them are paid) to pretend to protest the depredations. That makes it clear to everybody that leftists had nothing to do with the depredations (*cough*) and should be continued to allowed to run the world. Ignore those bankster behind the leftists’ “curtain”!

  8. ILoveCapitalism says

    October 4, 2011 at 11:24 am - October 4, 2011

    Sorry, “should -continue to be- allowed…”

  9. ILoveCapitalism says

    October 4, 2011 at 11:30 am - October 4, 2011

    And P.S. please note that OWS did not originate the term “bankster” – it’s been in use on the libertarian gold-bug Right, for years.

    I’ve been searching for a term that would sum up the Obama-loving, race-conscious, Big Government / Big Banking / Big Labor alliance. “Fascist” is a very good one, since it is the same alliance that put Mussolini, Hitler and the New Dealers in power in the 1920s and 30s, and the same basic economic model that Mussolini, Hitler and the New Dealers all used. Megan McArdle I think recently coined “venture socialist” in connection with Solyndra, another good one. I’m trying out “bankster-leftist”.

  10. ILoveCapitalism says

    October 4, 2011 at 12:02 pm - October 4, 2011

    Sorry for the multi-comments but I have to leave my point clear. Am I saying that OccupyWallStreet has a good point? No, I am saying that:

    – their protest is misguided and confused
    – they might have a better point, if they protested the actual profiteers of the housing bubble, the financial crisis, and the current administration. Namely Democrats like the Sandlers, G-S, George Soros, George Kaiser, etc.

  11. Heliotrope says

    October 4, 2011 at 2:09 pm - October 4, 2011

    I remember when Roseanne Barr was the main component for inflating the Goodyear blimp. I had no idea she was still producing gas.

  12. JohnAGJ says

    October 4, 2011 at 2:56 pm - October 4, 2011

    I don’t follow leftist “grassroots movements” but I have a hard time believing that Barr is considered to be anything more than a nutjob by that crowd as well. Well either that or I’m being influenced by that disastrous “reality” show she stars in on her Hawaiian ranch. Ick. I understand why iTunes gave the pilot away for free but that’s almost an hour of my life I’ll never get back…

  13. ILoveCapitalism says

    October 4, 2011 at 3:54 pm - October 4, 2011

    I have a hard time believing that Barr is considered to be anything more than a nutjob by that crowd as well.

    I don’t. Many hardcore leftists (protestors, Hollywood-ish figures, etc.) say things equally bad, if not worse. Recently we have had a spate of lefties either hinting, or openly stating, that elections in the U.S. should be suspended.

  14. Nan G says

    October 5, 2011 at 12:04 pm - October 5, 2011

    There’s a new video out showing a man who calls himself, ”the lotion man,” screaming at a Jewish man and making fun of him.
    The Washinton Examiner has it here:
    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/occupy-wall-street-beware-journalist-and-jew?utm_source=TEMPLATE:%20Washington%20Examiner%20Political%20Digest%20-%2010/05/2011&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Political%20Digest

    When the Democrats created a potential photo op by walking on the street from their offices to the Congress they claimed people shouted the ”n-word” and them 15 times.
    But even with a reward no proof showed on multiple videos.
    The link has many video examples on top of the one I mentioned.
    And Van Jones, once an Obama Green czar, is the organizer.
    Will the big media do anything?
    Probably not.

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