Occupy Wall Street just showed up somewhere they had no right to claim as "theirs" in a place someone else owned. Then they set up homes and shops, and started interminable arguments about how they should govern themselves.
Oddly enough, these aren't the first motherfuckers to try that shit in Lower Manhattan.
Are 200 years dead people the only ones who get a say as to what democracy looks like?
Gonna have to say, folks, one of the reasons OWS strikes a nerve, raggedy as they are, is that the whole strategy parodies all sorts of Founding American Myths: show up, take over, declare victory, desperatly scramble for moral exculpation.
If OWS can't take a park, why shouldn't the US take, say, The Dakotas?
These are nagging questions. Maybe if you're comitted to answering them honestly, you could get somewhere. Oh, and also, nobody can get jobs, but deficit blah.
Otherwise... there's always pepper spray! And that works, for a while. Or it doesn't, and you can pretend we're not all of us properly fucked.
Or if you're either nuts or bored you could try to defend the United States Senate as (a) having a Special Purpose and yet (b) containing Joseph Lieberman.
We lack a sustainable political infrastructure, and also one of our major political parties is barking mad and the other is shite.
And then the Chinese.
Christ. That meteor is so fucking slow.