“A police officer watching the crowd march by said as long as the protest stayed peaceful “I’m with them. I’m part of the 99 percent, too.” — Welcome To The Occupation | TBogg

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The greatest hoax of the last couple of decades has been the ability of the right wing to co-opt members of the struggling lower middle class and lower class and pretend they speak for them while enacting policies that enable the super-rich. They’ve used wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion and the baby Jeebus to alienate folks from their own economic interests, feeding them a steady diet of hatred of minorites, the educated, science, and, well, reality to create a voting block of people so guided by hatred of the “other” that they would crawl over broken glass to cut their nose off to spite their face…

[…] And so, because the message of the #OWS crowd has an organic message that resonates, one that surpasses the fraudulent tea party nonsense of the Koch brothers funded Tea Party, the money boys strike back. And who else to lead the pushback than two folks who owe their entire existence to the wingnut wurlitzer. Red State is a fully funded operation of Eagle Publishing, the owner of Human Events and Regnery Publishing. The members of the money party are scared, so they’ve sent out their astroturf specialists to meet it head on. It will fail.

— John Cole, regarding the “we are the 53 percent” Tumblr

Video proof of the plutocrats’ fear at Murdoch’s Fox “News” — the treatment given to the Teaparty rallies and the Occupy Wall Street / 99 percent demonstrations:

As White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said, “I think I remember how Mr. Cantor described protests of the tea party — I can’t understand how one man’s mob is another man’s democracy.”