Morning Examiner: The Occupation Strikes Back

Published November 17, 2011 5:00am ET



Yet another Occupy encampment was liquidated this morning, this time in Dallas. Another, in Philadelphia, was informed by the city that their eviction was imminent. Like all the other Occupy encampments, what liberal Democrats who run both cities first thought was a cute protest for higher taxes, turned into havens for drug dealing, filth, and sexual assaults.

The American people have been watching the progressive movement in action and they are not impressed. Public Policy Polling, a liberal polling firm, released a poll on the movement yesterday showing that what little support the Occupy movement initially had, has since cratered. When asked last month, Americans were split on the Occupy movement with 35% supporting the movement’s goals and 36% opposing them. This month, support had fallen to 33% and opposition had risen to 45%. Even worse for liberals, when asked to choose which movement they supported more, the Tea Party or Occupy, Americans chose the Tea Party 43%-37%.

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