When you said that you were a Tea Partier and a conservative, I fully expected this guy to either:
a.) Take his guitar to the side of your head and watch as his "backup singers" to stomp a mudhole in you, or
b.) Call in the rest of the local chapter of the OWS crowd to have words with you.
I was not only impressed by how civil he was when you were speaking to him, but how up-to-date he was with Obama (Goldman Sachs was a huge contributor to his campaign).
The second person also surprised me by his overall demeanor (I'll wait until that's posted here before I go into a little more detail).
I'll be honest here, when they started spring up here in Michigan, I fully expected something like this to happen.
In Detroit, nothing even close. They even held a Wedding in the middle of Grand Circus Park yesterday with OWS in attendance.
Now before people think that I've lost gone over to the dark side and will show up downtown singing kumbayah along with them, here's three words for you: Ain't gonna happen!
But if they want to conduct whatever it is they are doing in a civil manner, then I can at least respect that.
One last thing, I'm not sure if this'll amount to anything, but there are areas of agreement that bear looked into (i.e. bailouts & election reform). Based upon what I've seen and read with these people and in other OWS protests in other parts of the country, if you have two large groups pressuring the Capitol Critters to make changes, including Constitution Amendment(s) to put SCOTUS back on its leash, there just might be something there.
