NYT: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Are Clueless!

As I mentioned in my last post, not even the Occupy Wall Street protesters seem to know what they’re protesting, let alone what their “one demand” is—which is really nearly a dozen demands. Fortunately, someone in the New York Times (surprisingly enough) seems to share my opinion:

[The] cause [of their protest], though, in specific terms, was virtually impossible to decipher. The group was clamoring for nothing in particular to happen right away — not the implementation of the Buffett rule or the increased regulation of the financial industry. Some didn’t think government action was the answer because the rich, they believed, would just find new ways to subvert the system.

“I’m not for interference,” Anna Katheryn Sluka, of western Michigan, told me. “I hope this all gets people who have a lot to think: ‘I’m not going to go to Barcelona for three weeks. I’m going to sponsor a small town in need.’ ”

Some said they were fighting the legal doctrine of corporate personhood; others, not fully understanding what that meant, believed it meant corporations paid no taxes whatsoever. Others came to voice concerns about the death penalty, the drug war, the environment.

“I want to get rid of the combustion engine,” John McKibben, an activist from Vermont, declared as his primary ambition.

“I want to create spectacles,” Becky Wartell, a recent graduate of the College of the Atlantic in Maine, said.

Having discerned the intellectual vacuum, Chris Spiech, an unemployed 26-year-old from New Jersey, arrived on Thursday with the hope of indoctrinating his peers in the lessons of Austrian economics, Milton Friedman and Ron Paul. “I want to abolish the Federal Reserve,” he said.

The group’s lack of cohesion and its apparent wish to pantomime progressivism rather than practice it knowledgably is unsettling in the face of the challenges so many of its generation face — finding work, repaying student loans, figuring out ways to finish college when money has run out. But what were the chances that its members were going to receive the attention they so richly deserve carrying signs like “Even if the World Were to End Tomorrow I’d Still Plant a Tree Today”?

One day, a trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Adam Sarzen, a decade or so older than many of the protesters, came to Zuccotti Park seemingly just to shake his head. “Look at these kids, sitting here with their Apple computers,” he said. “Apple, one of the biggest monopolies in the world. It trades at $400 a share. Do they even know that?”

Kudos to the guy who wanted to enlighten (or as the newspaper suggested, “indoctrinate”) the protesters with some Milton Friedman and Ron Paul. Maybe if he’s able to reason with some of them, he can convince them to take I-95 south until they reach the real source of the problem: the Federal Reserve.

Of course, if there’s anyone out there living near New York City who’s well-versed in Austrian economics, feel free to drop by the protests and try talking some sense into these protesters. Don’t be upfront or confrontational. Just kindly ask them how much they think the rich pay in taxes, or whether regulation has been increasing or not, or whether deregulation caused the economic crisis, or how much the Koch Brothers donate to political contributions.

Then again, this is all assuming that these tofu-eating, pot-smoking libtarded moonbats actually have the mental cognition to be reasoned with—which they probably obviously don’t!