Occupy Wall Street is getting some bad press.
I mean, it's getting some
really bad press. Especially from Regressive linchpin FOX News.
Famous reality denier
Bill O'Reilly has declared that the protesters are jobless because "they don't want to work." According to
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the movement is nothing but a bunch of useless people who "dirty the streets."
Sean Hannity's response to the protesters is to talk over them, say they don't like freedom, and accuse them of destroying the country.
And really, these are just specific examples. Turn on the news and watch almost any coverage of Occupy Wall Street, and you hear the same thing over and over: they're dirty hippies who need to get a damned job.
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| Pictured: Dirty Useless People |
Well let me tell you something: if they could get a damned job, they might not be there! If the economy hadn't been wrecked by billionaires and their corporations, then maybe people wouldn't be this angry! If those hyperwealthy that FOX News and their Republican cohorts keep calling "job creators" actually created some jobs, then maybe things wouldn't have reached this point!
But the economy was wrecked by these people. These "job creators" don't want to create jobs -- they'd rather sit on their money than "waste" it on employees. And so nearly one in ten Americans can't get a job.
Regardless of the facts, conservative newspeople and pundits argue over and over that Occupy Wall Street protesters must just not want to get a job, because anyone who wants a job can get one.
It's hard to figure out what goes on inside a Regressive mind, but it appears to be something like this: when the unemployment rate goes up, that just means America is lazier than usual. It's apparently got little to do with the economy. Because after all, even when some think the country's actually
entering a depression, anyone who
wanted to work
could.
They're literally pointing at the the unemployed, the homeless, and the starving and saying, "The bad economy is their fault!" Well, it's not. You know who I point at? The banks, the hyperrich corporations, and the billionaires.
This is
THEIR fault.
These are the people that oppose us. What's sad is that there's a good possibility that these are middle class Americans. The nobility has them so cowed and broken that they'll cheer innocent people being maced. They kneel at the feet of the rich simply because they're rich. "He has more money than me, so he must be worth more." Remember, these are the kind of Ayn Rand worshippers believe that the poor should be allowed to starve to death.
We can find these people everywhere. Stand around a few minutes next to any newsstand and you'll hear someone complaining about how "Obama's stealing our money" or something. Because that healthcare bill, the one that keeps people from dying? That's just one step too far. They're usually too embarrassed about their opinions to voice them in public.
On the internet, you'll see what they're really like.
Regressives like this are our enemies. They are traitors to the American public, and are doing their best to sell us out to their corporate lords.
Be better than that.