Occupy Wall Street Vs Tea Party
Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party followed similar paths, but the two movements leave behind different legacies. Both grew out of grassroots movements, enjoyed brief popularity and are now widely disliked by the electorate. These Americans were angered and grew into spontaneous and leaderless populist uprisings where momentum fell short. Both claimed to represent a large portion of normal Americans, yet their ideologies and demographics could not have been more different like their influences to this day. Occupy Wall Street began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, Located in New York City's Wall Street Financial District, which received Global attention and spawned the Occupy Movement against social and economic inequality due to
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He called for a “tea party” and within days, the Tea Party took to the internet and created sites and Facebook groups. On February 27, 2009, thousands attended rallies across the country in 48 cities. Supporters of the movement have since had a major impact on the internal politics of the Republican Party as for the support of various political candidates who support reducing government spending and for lowering taxes and ObamaCare, though they lost that one. Also, members of the Tea Party still hold seats in the House and Senate of Congress to this day. The Tea Party, are angry for the wrong reasons. Not only that but the Tea Party is sponsored by established conservative groups and men such as the Koch brothers who are some of the most corrupt fat cats that there are and obviously carry their own agenda, which ironically worked against the people to destroy government safety nets,which some of these protesters benefit from. Paul Krugman of the New York Times called the Tea Party of AstroTurf rather than Grass Roots. These people were the ones that forced John Boehner, former house speaker, to resign and Paul Ryan only became the new speaker if they would cooperate , as with them especially, things never got done. They are the same reason the Republican party may become fractured as they are the type to support Trump and are unlike the established generally moderates of the party who have been working as damage control since Trump’s
He called for a “tea party” and within days, the Tea Party took to the internet and created sites and Facebook groups. On February 27, 2009, thousands attended rallies across the country in 48 cities. Supporters of the movement have since had a major impact on the internal politics of the Republican Party as for the support of various political candidates who support reducing government spending and for lowering taxes and ObamaCare, though they lost that one. Also, members of the Tea Party still hold seats in the House and Senate of Congress to this day. The Tea Party, are angry for the wrong reasons. Not only that but the Tea Party is sponsored by established conservative groups and men such as the Koch brothers who are some of the most corrupt fat cats that there are and obviously carry their own agenda, which ironically worked against the people to destroy government safety nets,which some of these protesters benefit from. Paul Krugman of the New York Times called the Tea Party of AstroTurf rather than Grass Roots. These people were the ones that forced John Boehner, former house speaker, to resign and Paul Ryan only became the new speaker if they would cooperate , as with them especially, things never got done. They are the same reason the Republican party may become fractured as they are the type to support Trump and are unlike the established generally moderates of the party who have been working as damage control since Trump’s