How Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party are the same—and how they are really different.
The new lefty Occupy Wall Street Group is being referred to as the ying to the Tea Party’s right-wing yang. Both are grassroots populist movements that are united in their anger against bailed-out banks and corporate greed, but when it comes down to nuances, their values are fundamentally different. As one Occupy protester told The Daily Beast’s John Avlon, “The only thing we have in common is our homemade signs.” Their slogans are proof that a sense of urgency fueled by anger makes for a potent mix of gloom and doom.