The Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movements have both flared up since 2008. Each is a group that developed - seemingly from the grassroots - as an expression of dissatisfaction from different groups within the electorate (older folks on medicare and younger folks with student loan debt - to be simplistic), and each hopes to achieve some success in having the needs of those groups redressed. Each is employing different tactics to do so. Beyond that, each also represents different issues that themselves may be more or less easily remediable.
I want you to analyze each group and compare and contrast the different tactics each is using to address the needs of their membership (assuming we are clear about who the members of each happen to be). How effective is each group in converting the grievances of its members into effective political action?
