The Republicans and Occupy Wall Street
Submitted on October 10, 2011
By ALAN FARAGO - October 10, 2011
The [Republican] response to Occupy Wall Street recalls the way the 1960′s protests against the Vietnam War energized American conservatives. Until the demonstrations by assorted students and labor and political activists...the right wing had been defined by racism...and the stigma of the John Birch Society...The counter-response came from the US Chamber of Commerce and wealthy American industrialists. They invented a political machine that now, nearly half a century later, is the most successful in US history.
