Reply #4: Anna Miller was a great spokeswoman... [View All]

[ljm2002]

...very calm and very to the point.

I didn't agree with the other two much this time. Both Max Keiser and Carol Gould seem to be dismissing the movement. You can make legitimate criticisms, and some of their criticisms were legitimate. But they were being quite dismissive which I though was too bad. Max was wrong to dismiss it as an Adbusters stunt.

It's true we want to see leadership. But there are people on Wall Street, and they've been there for days, and that has to count for something. You never know where the spark will come.

Of course Carol Gould was simply un-informed about what the Tea Party really is. She acts like it's a grass roots movement, which it presents itself as, when nothing could be further from the truth.

I think one of the big issues today is that people are thinking in the same tired old ways. Max wants to see a single focus, Carol wants to see a strong leader. Max thinks the Wisconsin demonstrators are the "real thing", largely because the issues were traditional and easily defined (in my opinion); Carol worries about a revolution in America because it could mean Communism or Fascism would take hold. I don't think she is totally off base in that worry; however, I do think there are new forms brewing and that is where our real hope lies.