Cantor Is Scared A Hypocrite

October 7, 2011

When the Tea Party movement started and grew the past couple years, most Republicans embraced them as a way to retain power and they are now party of the party. The movement was full of middle-aged white people gathering to express outrage at Obama and the government and especially the democrats in Congress. During this time, Eric Cantor was silent or tacitly supportive of that movement.

Now things have changed.

Eric Cantor said at a Values Voters Summit that he was increasingly concerned about the “growing mobs” and he was referring to the demonstrators in New York. He obviously is afraid and to say this is absurd. He never called any of the Tea Party demonstrations a "mob".

One mans mob is another's demonstration.

Americans, even racists in the Tea Party can demonstrate and demand change. So can those in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. Each are equally valid and totally American.

For Cantor to say they are a mob and criticize them as something other than American or patriotic is pitting one group of Americans against another. People like Cantor have created a situation where the OWS was inevitable. The grassroots reaction to the inequality and corruption of the U.S. Government and big businesses is understandable.

The OWS movement must grow and overcome the greed and corruption of America where corporations control all aspects of life. This must stop. Corporations are not people but people are and Cantorites forget that.