- Republican politicians are over-exaggerating the Occupy protests, when in fact the behavior of the Occupy protesters are not as extreme as the behavior of the Tea Party protesters in 2009.
- Well-off Americans are responding to these Occupy protests with a sort of hysteria, because the system is rigged towards them and they don't want that to change.
- Anyone trying to financially reform the American economic system to allow for more equality (such as Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren) are deemed as socialist and get a bad reputation from the 'defenders of the wealthy'.
- The Wall Street moguls realize how their position in this whole scheme really has no defense, so they frantically try to suppress any kind of criticism of their un-American doings.
Source: Krugman, Paul. "Panic of the Plutocrats."New York Times. 09 Oct 2011: n. page. Web. 30 Oct. 2011. <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/opinion/panic-of-the-plutocrats.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>.
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