Occupy Woodstock
By Brian Kirwin | Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 | EconomicsThe occupy movement has officially jumped the shark.
Some movements are sustaining. Some movements are just sputtering failures. Guess which one the “Occupy” movement is becoming.
When Rev. Al Sharpton co-ops your protest, you’re finished.
Some are calling the union-paid, anti-capitalist Occupy movement a “tea party of the left.” They wish.
Tea Parties have been peaceful. Occupiers have been arrested.
Tea Parties clean up after their rallies and pay their own way. Occupiers have ruined parks in New York, showered in restaurant bathrooms and lived off donated food.
Tea Parties want to return to the Constitution. Occupiers don’t know what they want.
Neither likes the status quo, and that’s about the only similarity I can see.
Occupiers are an urban Woodstock. At least their sixties predecessors cranked out some decent tunes.
The local community organizer has college degrees in History and Spanish. He’s unhappy that he has no full time job.
How do those degree choices look now? Don’t yell at Wall Street. Yell at an educational system that encourages guaranteed student loans for career paths that aren’t likely to make you enough money to pay back the loan.
Oddly enough, a Business degree might’ve done wonders for him.
Let me share a secret of success with those unhappy with job opportunities. Entrepreneurism!
The secret to success is not to wait for someone else to give you your dream job. The secret is create your own dream job. Start your own company. Be your own boss. Market your talent and make your own success. If you are relying on someone else to create your opportunity for you, you’re rolling the dice against very poor odds.
Don’t go to college to study things you find interesting at 18. Go to college to develop the skills and knowledge in things that will be marketable for 50 years. Want to fight a big business? Wonder why colleges turn out so many graduates with degrees that don’t result in careers, and they know they’re doing it, gladly taking puffed tuitions in loans that look like sub-prime mortgages.
At their core, many Occupiers don’t understand what makes America great. They claim victimhood in a system where success relies on them being less reliant. It’s rugged, but it rewards individualism.
Imagine if every Occupier started his own small business and put as much time and energy in creating his own future rather than whining loud enough to hope someone legislates them money, health care, housing and a guaranteed job and big salary.
It would almost be American.
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The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled.
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6 Responses to "Occupy Woodstock"
As usual, you hit the nail squarely on the head, Brian.
Started, financed and embraced by the left. Will history show this was a “Let’s get Obama re-elected by taking heat off him and onto bad corporations and rich people” ploy? I wonder.
http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/10/07/astroturf-on-literal-parade-occupy-dc-agitator-admits-to-paying-protesters/
Tea Partiers are peaceful?
Yes, they peacefully hurled epithets and spit on members of Congress, including the venerable civil rights hero John Lewis.
Yes, they peacefully punched Jim Moran’s constituents outside of his town meeting.
Yes, they peacefully shouted down the rabbi doing the invocation at Moran’s town hall, and disrupted town halls across the nation.
Yes, they peacefully marched with images of Hitler and offensive racial signs.
Yes, they peacefully screamed insults and disrupted business at countless offices, especially those of districts where they did not live, when they invaded Capitol Hill.
Yes, they were peacefully duped by the corporations and shadow organizations that funded and drove the agenda of this astro-turf operation.
Yes, they sit back peacefully as Cantor and conservative politicians, bloggers, and talking heads try to rewrite history with concentrated spin.
I saw an interesting blog reference to the “Occupy” participants as not the “tea party of the left”, but it is the left’s “Flea Party” which is more of an “infestation” than a protest. Another said that they need “Hermanix” treatments to start cleaning this up. “Mock-u-py” has begun…
Sean,
Claim your $10,000 reward from Big Government for your proof that the members of the Black Caucus, ordered by two white people Pelosi and Hoyer, were spat upon as they went to vote.
Occupysenate, occupycongress, occupywhitehouse, occupyEVERYTHING. When it gets to occupyfortknox, my ears may perk up.
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