Let's Not Forget OWS...

[Summer Hathaway]

62. I was responding to

a particular question equating OWS to Teabaggers, and expressing my opinion as to why the two groups have been perceived differently by the political PTB.

But just to address what you've said briefly, it is not a matter of being beholding to any party or politician; it is a matter of representing as a cohesive group with a common purpose and agenda. I feel that's where OWS has failed, in that the goals and agenda vary from day to day, and from city to city.

It is one thing to say "we as a group" want financial reform, or a revision of the tax code, or an overhaul of the voting process, etc. It is quite another to say "we as a group" want all kinds of different things, depending on which one of us you happen to speak to.

The civil rights movement was about one cause, one goal, and achieving that goal. Occupy seems to have as many goals as there are participants - which leads to the perception that they are too "all over the map" to be taken seriously as one united force to be reckoned with, and whose demands are too scattered to ever be satisfied.