"these are the demands of a peasantry, not a working class"

[malthaussen]

6. I think he's trying to show a disconnect

... between the position of Occupy and modern liberalism. It's not a proletarian revolution demanding fairer distribution of increasing resources, it is much more survival-rooted and simple than that. I think that the Democratic Party (and the POTUS in particular) don't get this point: they think Occupy is whining because they aren't getting their "fair share" of the American Dream (r).

There is an old shibboleth that revolutions are the result of rising expectations. The Occupy movement, however, is clearly a result of diminishing expectations. And that is what the PTB just don't get, largely because their expectations know no bounds.

-- Mal