I just don\’t want to attack people and rail against them as idiots. And I do think there are some similarities to the grudges–there are lots of reasons to be upset right now, and I think the Tea Party and OWS have a couple reasons–not all, certainly–in common, while opposing each other in pretty much every other way. I also think it\’s safe to say the majority of people in each movement are regular people you meet on the street, so it\’s interesting that two such different grassroots protests have been going on so close in time to each other–that doesn\’t happen much.

But mostly, I just wanted to register that there are conservatives who read this site, and it\’s always irritating when you think you\’re reading about one thing, be it movies or books, or I dunno, fashion, and then the person writing assumes that everyone agrees with their political viewpoint. I\’ve seen others go off on much worse rants before, so since this one didn\’t offend me overmuch, I wanted to be polite about it. But it\’s always good to have a writer who is offering his political opinion out of the blue say something like \”In this writer\’s opinion\” to let the reader know that he/she isn\’t obligated to agree and that the writer doesn\’t think he/she is an idiot.

Well, you\’re entitled to your political opinion. I don\’t completely disagree, but I found the Tea Party protests to be a lot more inspiring, personally–grandmothers, soccer moms, dads and kids, people who\’d never been to a protest before demanding the government keep its hands off their lives and stop piling debt onto the future generations.

Interesting how both movements seem largely caused by the Wall Street bailouts–as well as the recession, of course. They just have different ideas about the solutions.