This week, thousands of Americans will stand in groups and sleep on public and private property all night long. This so they can be the first to view a popular teenage vampire-romance movie. Only 'Twilight' fans and people who live and work near movie theaters will know this is going on, and they won't give a passing care to it. Neither will the outer populace.
They won't be the only ones standing in the cold. They are joined by thousands of fellow Americans who will also stand in groups in public and private property, some attempting to sleep overnight. But there the similarities end.
There is a harsh divide between public perception of people who love teenage werewolves and stand up to show it, and people who love their country enough to get loud when things get bad. Opponents of OWS include high public officials, corporations, banks, Wall Street, mayors, more than half of our legislature, most of the wealthiest fractions of the country, the health insurance industry, all of the GOP frontrunners for the presidency, and millions of common citizens, some of whom proudly and loudly took part in the Tea Party protests four years ago.
This is the lesson we learn from this....
Millions of Americans think it's o.k. to meet in groups to applaud really shitty movies, but think it's atrocious for people they don't agree with to use their constitutional rights to public protests.
I think I got that about right.
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