OWS and TEA Party seeing two ends of an Elephant

My law professor friend is an ardent leftist and Obama supporter. We have exchanged ideas and barbs for over two years. His latest post www.mealsfromthemarketplace.com included in part:

“… the Occupy Wall Street movement might save America from the march toward plutocracy that it has been on for the last thirty years. Properly understood, the Occupy movement is aimed at reining in the excesses of rampant greed in a corporate-dominated capitalist system that has lost its bearings.”

He liked my comments about capitalism but thought I was obsessing too much on the lack of propriety of the OWS crowd vs. TEA Party gatherings… that we must concentrate on substance. It’s just hard to do when one side is screaming epithets and throwing dung.

Cleanliness does make profound impressions. I have several profound memories that give credence to my view (as I sit among piles of paper around my desk):

1. I went to a Catholic Conference in Kansas City in 1975. 25,000 in the Chiefs’ stadium. It was my first experience of the crowd amazing the maintenance crew by leaving the place spotless. All they had to do was empty the trash bins and resupply the restrooms.

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