The Lamest Thing You'll Read All Day

Seriously lame.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Occupy movement turns 1 year old, its effect still hard to define."

Lame because, on the one hand, Occupy's had an enormous effect. From the White House down the the dregs of the Democrat fever swamps, anarcho-communism has been welcomed by one of the two major political parties in American politics. The movement's also given the MSM flacks something to cheer on while the left stumbles to find some kinda message that appeals to people not to stupid too vote Democrat in the first place. But the piece is lame on the other hand because with this front-page spot, the Times makes the case, as is so common, that Occupy essentially has to become a tea party-type organization to remain vital. Progressive media types have never grasped the fundamental difference between Occupy and the tea party. With the former, you had an anti-capitalist movement originating on the fringes of the radical left, on the campuses, the unions, and the alternative media, which was later piggybacked by the establishment left once the Zuccoti Park criminals got their fifteen minutes of fame. The tea party, however, bubbled up from everyday Americans shocked at what was happening to their country. It got exposure through Fox News, quite a bit of exposure, but for the most part the tea party sprung spontaneously from the outrage of the silent majority. And its effect has been enormous. Occupy's manifesto is Marx and Engels. The tea party's manifesto is Thomas Jefferson and the Federalist Papers. Amazing how the media beat the doors down to mainstream communism but the founding philosophy of the nation was demonized as horribly retrograde and fundamentally racist. I shake my head sometimes.

But read the piece at the Times. I don't expect we've heard the last of Occupy, in any case. The left will always be with us. The anarchists and communists and Jew-haters will keep up their hatin' no matter what the label.

RELATED: ICYMI, at FrontPage Magazine, "Occupy Wall Street: The Communist Movement Reborn."