More Intelligentsia Show Their Shining Faces

SIGH.  OK, so tonight the coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests revealed 2 things:

1.)  Occupy Wall Street protestors do not believe in bringing the American flag to their protest.  Not one.

2.)  Most of them have no idea why they're there, evidenced by their answers to the question, "Why are you here?"

One of the young men, sitting on the ground, playing songs on his guitar said, "You know, I really don't know.  I just know my faith in humanity has been restored," when asked why he was there.  Another man, in answer to the question said, "There's just a lot of unhappiness."  When asked why he was unhappy, he said, "Sometimes you don't know why you're unhappy.  And that's ok."  Another young man said that pollution is wrong.  "Like that building over there.  Why is it being built?  So it can be filled up with garbage?", he said.  This is the point at which my 17-year-old son said to me, "I think I just started to get stupid."  So I shut it off.  We don't believe in child endangerment.

Here's the thing: a house built on sand cannot stand.  This protest is built on shifting sand and these people aren't grounded in anything.  Their message is white noise, mixed in with some "blah blah blah."  The tea party, on the other hand, is built on solid ground.  It is NOT going anywhere and will NOT fizzle, much to the frustration of liberals, who are the minority.  The people at EVERY tea party event I've been to espouse the exact same message and it all boils down to this:  We the People have GOT to get a handle on our government.  We love our military.  We love the free market.  We embrace personal responsibility.  We cherish our freedom.  The message never changes and it always resonates.  You can ask any attendee and they'll tell you the same thing.  That's precisely why this movement took off like a rocket ship 2.5 years ago. We didn't need to get our game plan.  We already had it.  We just needed to act.

What an honor the be living in such a consequential time in our nation's history!  What stories we get to pass down!  We're making history.