OWS isn't a Relevant Movement to Change Society and May Hurt Us More then It Helps Us

[CTyankee]

177. Well, you've arrived at the answer yourself!

Income inequality has a variety of component parts that make it up. The contribution of OWS is to focus on the parts of that whole. And there are more and better ways to solve it than by coming up with dictating everyone's income by law (which isn't OWS's aim anyway). It's just harder. After all, the Civil Rights movement didn't start with Dr. King. Plenty of earlier leaders went to their graves without seeing its fruition. And Susan B. Anthony died before women got the vote.

We can start examining those parts one by one. Is it easy? Nope. This is going to take some political heavy lifting but somebody's got to start it. OWS has done that and IMO the process has begun.

The Citizens United decision must be mitigated or undone. Wall Street needs more and better regulation. The corruption of our Congress must be attacked. The rights of union members must be strengthened and protected (and hopefully helped to grow). All of these issues are parts of the problem of Income Inequality!

I wish there was a way that we who support OWS could make this easier for you and all of us. But I guess if it were easy and simple it would have already been done. We have to start somewhere. As we used to say back in the 60s, "you're either part of the solution or..."