Bob Barr: Why Wall Street Occupation Will Be Forgotten

Former Libertarian Party presidential nominee Bob Barr wrote an opinion piece for The Daily Caller that slams the current Occupy Wall Street movement as nothing more than a shallow echo of the anti-war and anti-establishment protests of the 1960’s and 1970’s.

The gist of Barr’s take on the protests:

True revolutionaries, such as Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, actually understand history and human nature, and are truly (not superficially) well-educated on the substance of that which they espouse. And, unlike their modern, self-styled namesakes, these icons possess vision and have concrete goals, not slogans and placards; and they are willing to sacrifice much (if not everything) to achieve their goals.

Our Wall Street blowhards may know how to use a Blackberry and an iPad, and even how to tie-dye a shirt or paint a fellow protester’s body; but the shallowness of their knowledge of economics, history and human nature dooms them to be quickly forgotten once the media eye shifts elsewhere.