Both began as contrived events.. Both have taken on a life of their own. The Tea Party influences congressional politics and has a sort of caucus & candidates in office. OWS has youth hippies and the unwashed parked in fucking tents. Are they: 1) A coup by ideologues against a self perpetuating, bi-partisan, political center... 2) An attempt at cheap kabuki by a corrupt, self perpetuating, bi-partisan political center.