For Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Movements, Some Common Ground [View All]

By Marc Fisher, Published: October 22
Washington Post


Wayne Schissler walked the four blocks from his workplace to the small Occupy Allentown protest to show the young demonstrators that a tea party member is not a monster. What he learned after a few hours of talk surprised him.

“They didn’t stink, and they weren’t on drugs,” he said. “I could see me being them, 30 years ago.”

Fifteen hundred miles away in rural Minnesota, Vas Littlecrow, a tea party die-hard since the movement’s early days, let the Internet noise about Occupy Wall Street wash over her, leaving her alternately annoyed and intrigued. She went on Google Plus to debate the Occupiers, “and they started saying things that clicked with me,” she said. “This was deja vu with how I got into the tea party.”


http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-tea-party-and-occupy-wall-street-movements-some-common-ground/2011/10/18/gIQAkIg07L_story.html?hpid=z2


For some time now there have been a few here, myself included, pointing out that the two sides do have some common ground that could be used for the people's benefit - this article shows where it is. imo that common ground could make all the difference in the battle for the presidency and in the future of a country that is once again about We, The People instead of We, The Corporations.