Why would anybody who isn't a right-wing greedhead WANT OWS gone?

[MADem]

57. ....too full of their lack of leadership ....

I have to agree with your essay entirely. The only thing they agreed on, for the longest time, was "camping."

I thought when some groups got up off their asses and protected homeowners from foreclosure, that was some good, strong symbolism--but don't tell me that someone in that group didn't step up to the plate and, contrary to "OWS rulez" exercise a little of that "Here's what we're gonna do, here's how we're gonna do it" leadership. Groupthink didn't create that effort.

Even the few good, solid, HUGE demos they had were accomplished with UNION leadership (you could kind of tell because of the union signs, and the fact that the unions coordinated the public safety issues with the police, fire, emergency services, etc.).

People are not all created equal in terms of their abilities, and there's nothing wrong with LEADERS. The guy picking his nose in the corner who wants to be told what to do, how to think and where to go, and will otherwise just play with his PSP all day isn't the same as the person with active concerns about issues of poverty and homelessness and an ability to articulate solutions to these problems. One should follow, the other should lead. There's nothing wrong with this and OWS's insistence that everyone/noone "lead" was a big piece of their failure to catch fire. If they'd only had a more formal leadership structure, they would have taken off, kicked ass, and taken names. They had it in their HANDS...and they dropped it.