re: #699 windsagio

TP organizers were very successful in setting and pursuing a specific agenda.

This is clearly not the case with the ‘Occupy’ crowd :p

I don’t actually think the Tea Party dudes had that specific an agenda, really. They followed, I’d say, whatever got presented to them by the right-wing media.

I think one difference is the remarkable consistency of the right-wing, the odd, nervous way it coalesces around whatever latest outrage or issue is. What I’m not clear on is whether the lack of that in the OWS stuff is due to a lower competency level among people like Adbusters in getting their message memed out, or whether those on the left are actually more resistant to such consensus and stuff. It’d be nice to think it was the latter.

I don’t think Adbusters could be accurately described as Marxist, though. They make common cause with some Marxists. But they’re more… abstract. I dunno.