OWS has meant just as much - if not more- than the teabagger movement to politics...

[JDPriestly]

54. Out there in the country is probably Republican territory anyway.

I don't think there is much OWS out in the country, and that may be why people out there in the country don't know about it. It did not receive its fair share of time in the mainstream media. It is best known to those of us who live in cities and could go and visit the campsites.

But it is clear to me that both the Romney and Obama campaigns are responding to the issues that OWS raised - - fairness in taxation, in regulation, in trade, in employment, in our families -- fairness. That is the most important issue in this election -- fairness. How do we as a nation define it?

Does it mean that drug addicts waste away in prison while the crooks on Wall Street enjoy their mansions and swimming pools?

Out there in the country, people do not see the disparity of wealth and what it means in their lives. They don't see it because the fabulously wealthy do not flaunt their wealth in small town Oklahoma -- even if they happen to own some land or a house there.

OWS has brought the reality about what Reaganism, the Wall Street mania for speed trading and computer trading and the crash of October 2008 have meant to the country.

If we didn't have OWS, we would have to invent it. OWS can be criticized for having created such a ruckus, but that criticism fails in my view because it is only thanks to OWS that our politicians are aware of the fact that we are not happy with the way the rich steal from the poor, the rich take their profits and shove their losses -- their garbage on the government and the rest of society.

OWS changed the conversation in the country. And unlike the Tea Baggers, OWS grew up out of the discontent in the country and not out of some high-budget think tank.