Backwards Bachman

By now we all know that all the Republican candidates for president are bitterly opposed to the Occupy Wall Street movement spreading across the United States, and we know why. Conservatives just plain old don't like progressive change, which means doing things differently than ever before; they much prefer reactionary change, which means going back to the way things used to be.

Michelle Bachman, if you still remember her, is the rapidly sinking republican presidential candidate from Minnesota. She now appears to have no more chance at the nomination than Newt Gingrich. Therefore she is attacking hard, in desparation. She suggested that the Occupy Wall Street people should direct their anger agsinst President Obama, of all people. Well, why not? He aint a republican, and he is, after all, her ultimate enemy. Presumably, she also thinks that the protestors should side with the republicans, which is a hilarious thought.

Now, I ask you this: with whom do the protestors better fit, Obama, or Bachman? Well, let's see.

The protestors are angry at Wall Street, who to them symbolize America's wealthiest one per cent.
Obama wants to raise taxes on the wealthiest one per cent, Bachman vigorously opposes doing that.
In fact, like all the other republican candidates, Bachman regards Obama's prososal "class warfare", or at least she says she does.

According to the protestors, the class war began long ago, before any of us were alive, when the corporate elite gained the absolute control over this country tha they maintain today. What the protestors really stand for is the elimination of class warfare.

The point is, the protest movement is essentially ideologically Obamian, in a broad sense. And it is diametrically opposed to everything Bachman and her fellow conservatives advocate, which is essentially a continuation of the current plutocracy (rule by the wealthy).

It would be far more appropiate for the protest to actively and openly support Obama, and aim their protest at Bachman and the others like her.