Why Occupy Wall Street Should Scare Republicans

Occupy Portland marchers occupy Lownsdale Square where their parade through downtown Portland ended earlier Thursday, 10/06/11. (photo: Randy L. Rasmussen/The Oregonian)

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By Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg

07 October 11

n Florida this week, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was asked about the growing Occupy Wall Street movement. “I think it’s dangerous, this class warfare,” he said.

Romney’s right. It may be dangerous - to his chances of being elected.

Occupy Wall Street, now almost three weeks old, isn’t like the anti-globalization demonstrations that disrupted summits in the 1990s or even the street actions at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York, though some of the same characters are probably in attendance. With unemployed young protesters planning to camp out all winter in Zuccotti Park (with bathrooms available only at a nearby McDonald’s), it’s more like a cross between a Hooverville and Woodstock - the middle-class jobless of the 1930s and the hippie protesters of the 1960s.
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