Freepers/TEA warming up to OWS?

[hexola]

It would have been just any mundane clash of civilizations with points thrown and missed until a Mad Hatter in the form of the gregarious Tea Partier appears in the thick of the stand off between Occupiers and Conservatives and says - hey stop shouting at each other - you got at least 60% in common - so lets have some beers (many beers) and discuss this. And so began the Beer Summit an initiative between possibly the minuteman wing of the Tea Party - attendees at the CPAC and some of the Occupiers who came to protest CPAC.

At the CPAC-Occupy beer summit Over drinks, foot soldiers of the left and right explore what they agree on: more than you'd think.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2846116/posts

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/13/at_the_cpac_occupy_beer_summit/singleton/

[stevenleser]

1. Won't work for many reasons but I can sum it up in two paragraphs.

1. The Tea Party right is rabidly in favor of an aggressively militaristic foreign policy. It's common on FR, for instance, to say that foreign policy should be run out of the department of defense, not the department of state. Occupy is overwhelmingly pro-peace and pro-non US military intervention in overseas issues. The two groups are utterly incompatible on this front.

2. Occupiers are pro-living wage, pro-taxing the 1% more, pro-Unions, pro-many more examples of economic and social justice. To Tea Partiers, all those things are pure evil. That is an irreconcilable difference.

[davidthegnome]

2. Unfortunately, I think you're right

It would be something though, to see both groups working together for real. The Tea Party, OWS, those who participate are often seen as radicals... it would be interesting if the "radicals" could accomplish what our government cannot - to work together in spite of enormous differences. Sadly though, I think most on the right (especially the far right) are more like the guy we saw ranting about slave labor in the beginning of the video, telling the young man he didn't know that he didn't "work for it".

You summed it up nicely. I like the idea of working together for common goals, but I don't think it could ever actually happen. Unstoppable force, immovable object.

[Politicalboi]

3. And most Teabaggers are

Pro-life, and with this shit storm we're having, I don't see any giving in on either side. Besides, the Teabaggers are the kind to take the OW's numbers, and automatically claim them as one of theirs. The Teabaggers are better left on the vine to die.

[2pooped2pop]

4. I agree with everything said so far.

but I think if we could just get rid of lies in the media, even teabaggers would come around.

edit to add: But I give both sides prop for the beer meeting, with hope of at least some success. If those baggers hung around the occupiers very long, some peace would wear off on them. Occupiers are very good at that.

[HughBeaumont]

7. It's all about the Economic Darwinism.

Teabaggers are fully on board with it. OWS is not.

Until the baggers renounce Reaganomics, renounce job offshoring and renounce Laissez-Fail, this union cannot happen. I can't help them if they aren't able to recognize full-blown obvious failure.

[hexola]

5. Initially - OWS sort of shut down the TEA party.

Suddenly - the TEA party saw a group of people that were getting off their asses and DOING SOMETHING!

That sight sent TEA'ers scurrying back to their establishment roots - they've basically been saying the pledge of allegiance and sitting at their desks with their hands folded since then.

I think - during OWS - there was a notable lack of any "2nd Amendment Solution" type of talk at FreeRepublic...suddenly someone was walking the walk and not just talking the talk - and it wasn't them. That freaked them out bigtime...

Then they spent a few months waiting for their revolution to being - in the form of Sarah Palins "Undefeated" movie...well, I guess they discovered that the revolution will not be available at Wal-Mart...

[stlsaxman]

6. "I can't tell how many times WE were hassled when we went to 'protest'!" "Dude- I believe it!"

LIE #1.

Come into my parlor said the spider to the fly...

[mdmc]

8. ..

[Motown_Johnny]

9. Maybe they believe Breitbart (again) and figure they would fit right in

(kinda)