PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS: AMONG THE criticisms of the Occupy Wall Street protest that began three weeks ago was that there was no ready-made list of demands, nothing concrete that “realists” from the left and right could declare “socialist” or “incoherent” or “politically naive.”
And when asked by reporters to explain their views, more than a few of the young adults sleeping out in a private park in Lower Manhattan clearly had not mastered the skill of delivering clever sound bites.
Yet anyone who isn’t being deliberately obtuse knows what these protests are about: The fact that big money controls the political system. The fact that banks and investment companies that caused the financial crisis not only were not punished for the devastation they caused, but instead are stronger and richer than before taxpayers bailed them out. The fact that, even though a majority of Americans in 2008 voted to transform the way things operate, nothing of the sort has happened. … (more)
