Posted by
Steve on Monday, November 28, 2011 11:33:59 AM
Last week, the Occupy Wall Street bunch announced that they were going to Occupy Black Friday to try and stop the busiest shopping day of the year. Well, the numbers are in and the Occupy Black Friday event has to be classified as a monumental bust. Overall sales for the weekend are up 7%. Sales on Black Friday are up 16%. If Occupy Black Friday had any impact, it is lost on the numbers. This is the best Black Friday in history.
I also discovered this morning that the Occupy Phoenix group has only 8 people. I then reflected on the different Occupy groups all over the country. If the Occupy event is in a Red State or city, the Occupy group numbers are in single digits. If the Occupy event is in a Blue State or city, the Occupy group numbers can get quite large. For example, Phoenix has 8 protesters and Tucson has a couple hundred protesters. Both are in a Red State, but Phoenix is a red city and Tucson is a blue city. Occupy Wall Street has hundreds, if not thousands at their event. They are in a Blue State and a Blue city. Occupy Oakland and Occupy Los Angeles have hundreds or thousands; Occupy San Diego has maybe a hundred or so. All three are in a blue state, but Oakland and Los Angeles are blue cities, San Diego is a red city.
The protests on Black Friday were pathetic and under manned by the Occupy groups. The shoppers ignored them. That is the worst thing that can happen to a protester. A protester needs people to take note of his/her protest before it takes on any meaning. For the shoppers to ignore the protesters was significant in that it showed the disdain the general public has for these pathetic losers that are leading the Occupy events.
Democrats generally support the Occupy events and try and give the occupy events as much air play as possible. After the disaster of this weekend we should see the Democrat party generally disavow any support for the occupy movement. The movement will never generate any interest in people to vote for Barack Obama, so the occupy movement has no value for the Democrats. As long as the Democrats thought they could milk the occupy movement for votes, they were in full support. When they discover there are no real votes to be had, they will drop the occupy groups like a hot potato.
The Tea Party groups on the other hand do garner votes and are now raising cash for their favorite candidates. The occupy groups produce few, if any, votes and do not generate any campaign cash. The Democrats hitched their cart to the wrong horse. Now, they will have to figure out a way to make people to forget that they ever supported the Occupy protesters. Fortunately for the Democrats, their supporters have very short attention spans. But, unfortunately for Democrats, conservative and independent voters have much longer attention spans. Those groups will remember that the Democrats supported the anti-American Occupy movement from the beginning, no matter how much they protest that their comments are being taken out of context.
Republican ad people will have a field day with all the Democrat support for the rabble that claims to be the 99% but is really the 0.1%. Putting the two together will make people understand just how bankrupt the Democrat party is on ideas. They support people whose idea to improve things is to destroy the American way of life. That is not progress; it is regression into a more primitive time where we had kings. We got rid of kings in 1776; we do not need to start a new round of kings in 2011.