The video below shows Occupy Wall Street doing what they do best: help those they pretend to oppose. In this case, they do that by shouting down Rick Santorum at an event in Tacoma, Washington. That then helps Santorum correctly point out how intolerant they are (link).

"I think it's really important for you to understand what this radical element represents, because what they represent is true intolerance," Santorum said, after two protesters were taken to the ground and placed in handcuffs by police.

The protesters, Santorum suggested, "instead of standing here unemployed, yelling at somebody" should instead "go out and get a job."

Santorum's supporters roared their approval, chanting "get a job" back at the Occupiers.

With this post, I've written over a dozen posts since October patiently trying to explain what the Occupiers should be doing: trying to ask politicians and others tough questions. Those shouting Santorum down disagree with him in some way, right? Then at least a few among them must be able to articulate those differences and formulate questions based on those disagreements, right?

Yet, somehow not even one of them is able to do that. Instead, they illustrate their ignorance (we've never had the democracy they think we've lost and that was by design), their delusion (they are not the 99%; even most in the San Francisco Bay Area don't support their antics, link), and their opposition to speech and debate.

If OWS takes over, how would they govern? By throwing glitter on their opponents? By trying through various means to silence their opponents? If they don't want open debate now, then who knows what they'd do in the unlikely event that they got a great deal of power. They've repeatedly shown that they aren't qualified to govern anything.

3/27/12 UPDATE: The account with the video (Youtube ID qtEZwFo7Rz0) was terminated by the user. I replaced it with a news report from the event. While looking for the replacement, I found video of another glitter bombing from South Carolina: peekURL.com/vPZ4ezt . That shows Occupiers at their best: as very shrill and annoying children throwing a tantrum.