New political parties

I have not been paying a lot of attention to the Occupy Wall Street protests, but it looks like they are gaining some ground. Here is a story. 

This looks to me like another version of the Tea Party. While the Tea Party is pretty much a conservative outfit, this new one is pretty much a liberal outfit. I know both claim to not be either ... but if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck .........

While the Tea Party made its hay with anti-government rhetoric, the new group is all about anti-rich rhetoric. It is worth noting too that these anti-greed protestors appear to be fairly rich themselves.
Ah the hypocrisy of politics.

The Tea Party's thing was how bad government is, yet they want to run government.

The new group is against wall street and corporate greed, yet ...  “To the villainy-of-the-rich theme emanating from Washington, a child is born: Occupy Wall Street. Starbucks-sipping,  Levi’s-clad, iPhone-clutching protesters denounce corporate America even as they weep for Steve Jobs, corporate titan, billionaire eight times over,” columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote Thursday.

But politics in general is not about truth, reality or solving problems. Politics is about rhetoric and ideology. Style ... no substance. So the two groups - Tea Partiers and the 99 Percenters (i guess thats what they call themselves) - are no exception.

The thing is. Republicans and Democrats are so out of touch and both are becoming irrelevant. Maybe - hopefully - people are getting more weary of the fighting and seeing that its all smoke and mirrors.

The new parties suffer from the same hypocrisy and lack of substance, but they at least are following the model of becoming a political party. Political parties are a necessary evil, just like money is. .. You cant win an election - or promote ideology - without some sort of organization. and some cash.

There have been changes over the years in political parties. Even as we have pretty much always had a two-party system, they have both changed. There were the Whigs once upon a time.

I think there will be even more parties emerge as people grow more weary of the Republican - Democrat claptrap.  Right now the two new parties are just a different version, perhaps a bit more extreme, but still ... Tea Party-ers are basically republicans and 99 percenters are basically democrats - I know both will deny that, but .... its still the truth.

What I would like to see is more parties. And ideologies that are neither conservative nor liberal. Ive said before, I think the biggest problem we have in America is the ongoing boring battle between the two. Someone is making a fortune with this battle and we have no progress to show for it.  For now politics is just about "which side are you on" and not about actual solutions.

At least the new groups are a starting point.

More Media Hypocrisy

A N.H. Democratic candidate for state legislature said he wished Sarah Palin had been on the plane that crashed and killed the Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens.
This is bad. But what is worse to me is yet another case of blatant media bias and hypocrisy.
I have not found hardly any "respectable" media sources reporting on this.
New York Daily News has a report.

Some blogs are reporting it, and here is an example.  and here is another one.

Can you imagine the media storm we would be having if she had said the same about some democrat?
(Saying that about the president would be illegal, so im thinking of some other politician)

Tempest in a tea party

Here is a good story about the Tea Party versus NAACP and the little skirmish this week.
Its a pretty good story, not really slanted to either side
Looks like they both were a bit on the race card playing game this week.