Convenient Villains by Richard Carroll

Two Sisters From The Right  once again proudly welcome author Rich Carroll to our website.  Mr. Carroll is a keen observer of people, life, political and social situations. In this essay he has truly captured the essence of the OWS movement.  We are in complete agreement with his assessment.
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Convenient Villains

by Rich Carroll

Once upon a time in America young people were raised to believe if they worked hard, studied hard and applied themselves they would become successful in all ways. According to OWS (Occupy Wall Street) bums, those who work hard and achieve are now “America's villains.” How convenient for the lazy slobs to hang that handle on the go-getters!

Our nations great entrepreneurs who created jobs and wealth are now “villains.” One cannot help but wonder if these “OWS” people broadcast their hatred for success via their ipods and computers (both inventions of the villainous successful Steve Jobs and Bill Gates). What about the thousands of other people responsible for Apple's success, including vast numbers of investors? Can we be certain that their willingness to risk so much on a hazardous new venture would have been unaffected by the higher marginal tax rate the “Occupiers” seem to be demanding? A radically more redistributive state, resembling the one championed by the Occupy Wall Street movement would damage the entrepreneurial spirit that has, for so long, been such an exceptional American strength.

Are we becoming Europe? Recent polls show 60 per cent of Americans believe that the poor are lazy, a view shared by only 26 per cent of Europeans. In this same poll (Pew Research) 36 per cent of Americans believe that success in life is determined by forces outside our control, but a whopping 72 per cent of Germans and 57 per cent of the French take the view that outside forces determine their individual success. How sad. These polls help explain why 58 per cent of Americans but only 36 per cent of Europeans believe that freedom to pursue life's goals without state interference is more important than that the state guarantees nobody is in need.

When did we give up and want to be taken-care of instead of pursuing success via our own self motivation and drive? When did we become lazy and shiftless and envious of those who were not? All those people sitting in parks and streets holding picket-signs are our first wave of the really weak: We give up. We are too lazy to tend for ourselves. We don't really want to work if we have a government to take care of us! Socialism is good!

What message does this deliver to younger Americans with a full life ahead of them? Gripe and complain and the government will take care of you? What isolates the OWS demonstrators against the welter of modern life working Americans? Are these OWS people in a condition of psychological stand-by,? A dreaming space of oddly spiritual origin that big brother will swoop-in and take care of all their needs? Oh what horror to have their self-conscious dreaming spaces violated by some external force – LIKE WORK! Human beings pooping on police cars carries a tincture of comic absurdity. The only message they managed to deliver after all this time is: “We are too lazy to find a job and take care of ourselves.”

In a world of “survival of the fittest” the OWS people are the losers. The dropouts; the unfit, the infirm and lame through no one's fault but their own. They no longer wish to compete and have thrown themselves in front of the court of mercy, or the wolves. Let's not let these losers set a precedent. As long as the television camera desires to put these people on some kind of pedestal, point and say “this is what happens to people who don't study, do their homework, and apply themselves. If there is any good to come of this, point to OWS and remind our young “you don't want to sit-around, smoke dope and become a loser like this.”