» *UPDATED* #OccupyWallStreet: The Rap Sheet, So Far - Big Government. Wall Street protests: liberal cable's tea party moment? - Keach Hagey. The two cable networks battling each other for the liberal mantle finally have a movement they can embrace with the kind of fervor Fox News reserved for the tea party: Occupy Wall Street.
Continue Reading. Protests And Power: Should Liberals Support Occupy Wall Street? How should liberals feel about Occupy Wall Street?
If you follow politics and you think of yourself as a liberal, then you have undoubtedly been grappling with that question in recent weeks. At first blush, it would be difficult not to cheer the protesters who have descended on lower Manhattan—and are massing in other cities across the United States—because they have chosen a deserving target. Wall Street should be protested. Its resistance to needed regulations that would stabilize the U.S. economy is shameful.