"The economy is improving, therefore OWS will go away."

[randome]

131. Yep. I'm absolutely, totally nut-zo!

So why do I really post on this topic? Because I see fellow DUers setting themselves up for an abysmal letdown when they finally realize that OWS is not THE ONE they have been waiting for.

And because I have as much a say in what goes on in these forums as anyone else.

And because I like observing otherwise rational people refusing to accept reality. I wonder how far that refusal can extend. It's a learning process for me. And a catharsis, if you will.

My New Year's Resolution was this: I vowed to be less tolerant. By that, I mean no longer parsing my words and more often saying precisely what I mean.

I've reneged somewhat on that resolution so far because I still find myself trying to hedge when pointing out the bleeding obvious to the OWS adherents -that without leaders or an agenda, nothing but confusion can come of this. And in the process, the very politicians we need to support will be harmed.

Not everything is a conspiracy, you know. It isn't the Corporations and the Republicans and Law Enforcement and the Democrats and a growing number of DUers who are all out to BRING YOU DOWN.

The real heroes of 2011 -and probably 2012- are the people in Wisconsin who are working like hell to get Walker and his ilk out of office.

Wisconsin has raised the bar and OWS has a hell of a lot more to do to aspire to be anywhere near as effective.