Thank Science

Wednesday 30 November 2011 - Filed under Uncategorized

Investors Business Daily on the Occupy movement:

On Oct. 5, just 18 days after the Occupy Wall Street movement got started, NBC news anchor Brian Williams declared that it had “spread steadily and far beyond Wall Street, and it could well turn out to be the protest of this current era.”

About a month later, Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs wrote in the New York Times that the Occupy movement was “most likely the start of a new era in America,” adding that “those who think that the cold weather will end the protests should think again.”

Countless other pundits and advocates claimed more or less the same — that Occupy Wall Street was a grass-roots movement equal to if not potentially more influential than the Tea Party.

But two months after it began, the movement is giving every sign of running out of steam. Recent protests have been resounding flops, public support is slipping, and even Democrats are reluctant to embrace the movement.

Thank science.

2011-11-30  »  madlibertarianguy