Jim Sinclair describes himself as a "liberal-leaning libertarian who believes in tolerance, diversity, and compassion, and is offended way too easily."
He's also brilliant, as demonstrated by the Venn diagram to the left. It neatly captures the over-lapping concerns that are animating both Wall Street Occupiers and Tea Partiers.
As Sinclair puts it, the Occupiers and Partiers are "raging against different halves of the same machine" -- big corporations and big government working together to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of us.
Now, Venn diagrams are as popular with consultants as two-by-two matrices and waterfall charts. But they do have their uses. And in this case, I think they capture what's actually going on behind all the hijinks and outrageousness the media devotes so much time to.
It may be too much to say that these two groups were separated at birth. But, as I suggested before -- but didn't illustrate so graphically -- they have much more in common than they realize.
It's time for them to figure that out.
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