Occupiers: the greediest of them all

  So we keep hearing about how intense and righteously angry occupiers are about income equality, even though statistically most of the occupiers (originally anyway) have proven to be rich white kids.
  The truth is that the occupiers are greedy, materialistic parasites who are so fixated on getting other people's cash and unloading their own debts that their ambition far surpasses most people's willingness to sacrifice their morals to get what they want.
  Powerline points to an article in the radical leftwing The Nation by William Greider; it's pretty sickening stuff but wroth reading because it's so delusional. One expects Greider is capable of seeing fairy dust on the rottenest corpse.

This new movement is probably more threatening to President Obama, because many of the young people and minorities who campaigned and voted for him in 2008 might drift away to Occupy’s direct action. If Obama refuses to get tougher on reining in Wall Street, these former supporters may just skip voting in 2012. Yet this new force can ultimately help Obama if he responds to its message. Led by the young, the movement is aligning with the reviving militancy of labor and other progressive constituencies. The spirit is open-armed and patriotic, not negative and divisive. Obama should dare to lead it rather than dodge or oppose it. The Republicans are hopeless, of course, utterly in thrall to banking industry demands. 

In any case, this movement is not about electoral politics—not yet, anyway. It is about saving the country, an objective bigger than politics and politicians. Its vision is nothing less than halting the degradation and fostering the rebirth of the nation’s original democratic promise. It is the nature of authentic movements to seek large and majestic goals that seem impossible to pedestrian politicians—and, at first, to most citizens. Standing up requires both uncommon courage and severe provocation. 

Another reason I’m optimistic about the Occupy movement is its distinctiveness from other movements. Its horizontal, leaderless quality confuses outsiders but ensures its autonomy as a free-standing force not beholden to political parties or financial patrons that might restrict its behavior. OWS’s creativity depends on its independence.

  The occupiers are highly patriotic, not negative and divisive! Courageous! Leaderless! Up twinkles!
 Since it requires taking from the productive to give to the nonproductive, what is income equality except redistribution?