The Radical Right-Wing Roots of Occupy Wall Street

[MachineGhost]

This is a fascinating article about Goldwater's speech writer and his conversion from a right-wing propagandist for the rich to a more evolved human.

In reality, of course, no political movement springs “from nothing.”? Indeed, both of them have roots in the same man. Fifty-five years earlier that fall, the Tea Party movement’s direct ancestors met in Indianapolis to launch their first bid to rally citizens against the “dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy”? occupying the White House, Dwight Eisenhower. But when their beloved anti-communist Barry Goldwater was buried in the 1964 presidential election, the Republican Party moved swiftly to officially renounce the “radical organizations”? that had sullied its public image. Then the most radical of the right-wing radicals, Goldwater’s beloved speechwriter Karl Hess, moved into a houseboat, renounced politics altogether and dedicated the rest of his life to peacefully protesting the concentration of political and economic power in the hands of the new aristocracy he dubbed “the one percent.”?

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2 ... ll-street/

[doodle]

Very interesting. The transmutative nature of politics and its parties is quite stunning at times.