Michael Moore: Historians going to wonder why the rich overplayed their hand

Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore said Tuesday night that the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstration in lower Manhattan and other cities continued to grow because Wall Street had ruined the lives of so many people in the middle class.

"I think historians when they look at this time, they're going to wonder why the wealthy overplayed their hand like this," he said during an appearance on MSNBC's PoliticsNation.

"Why would they, when they had it so good? They had the middle class voting for the politicians that the wealthy bought, everything was running just fine, they were posting profits of a billion a year, but that wasn't enough for them."

"What they did was started to ruin the lives of the very people who voted for their politicians and supported them all these years, the middle class," Moore said.

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