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There’s a diagram floating around the Internet that claims to show areas of agreement between Tea Party protesters and the Occupy Wall Street crowd. It’s an idea supported by some pundits and media types as well. Even the president chimed in foolishly on the issue.

According to Obama, Occupy Wall Street isn’t all that different from the Tea Party. “In some ways, they’re not that different from some of the protests that we saw coming from the Tea Party,” he told ABC’s Jake Tapper. But that’s like saying the Russian and American revolutions were the same, when one led to a Socialist dictatorship and the other led to more freedom than any nation has ever had.

Ohio Democrat Rep. Dennis Kucinich told CNN “I met with Tea Party people from the Cleveland area. And frankly they have a lot in common with the people who are occupying Wall Street around the country.” Time magazine tried a similar approach, asking the question: “Occupy Wall Street: A Tea Party for the Left?” The anti-American, Russian state-sponsored RT even found one Tea Party person to draw a connection. But that doesn’t make it true.

There’s a term for saying that the two protest movements are similar or have common goals. We call that idiotic. Communists used to call those who did such nonsense “useful idiots,” but either way you slice it, “idiotic” is the operative term.

Perhaps that’s even too mild. At its heart, the Occupy Wall Street movement is a Big Government, anti-American, anti-success bunch that wants Uncle Sam to squeeze the rich and give them the results – in free college, government jobs and more. The Tea Party is its mirror opposite. Tea Party protesters are anti-Big Government, pro-American, pro-success voters who want Uncle Sam off their backs – or at least shrunk and to a manageable size so carrying the government doesn’t break their backs.

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