OWS is winning

[Bgno64]

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Gil Smart says Occupy Wall Street has already refocused the national conversation, forcing the nation to address issues like income inequality for the first time.

[vanbean]

1. I liked the comment that OWS wasn't against capitalism, but rather crony capitalism.

[Atypical Liberal]

2. I agree. This is a key point.

So many of my conservative friends and family have dismissed the OWS movement as "anti-capitalism" or "socialist" or "communist".

To be sure, there are people of that persuasion who are attracted to this movement by the same sense of economic injustice that we all feel.

But many people are not anti-capitalism, or even anti-wealthy. We are against the manipulation of government through wealth.

[mmonk]

3. Winning will be when we are in charge of Washington again.

Not one law, not one piece of legislation has been changed to change the balance of power back to the people. Right now, OWS resonates but must not die in conversational terms.