Wall Street Protests Have ‘Tea Party’ Potential, Professor Says
(maybe there is something positive in Tea Party after all)
Economy • October 2011 • Views: 1,035
Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) — The coalition of thousands of anti- Wall Street protesters in New York and cities across the U.S. has the potential to grow into the ‘Tea Party of the Left,’ said Brayden King, who’s written on social and political movements at Northwestern University.
‘They have to figure out what it is they are about in order to become the force of change in the Democratic Party like the Tea Party has been in the Republican party,’ King, an assistant professor of management at the Kellogg School of Management, said by telephone from Evanston, Illinois. ‘Without that, it will be hard for politicians to figure out how to position themselves without just saying that ‘we’re mad too.”
