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Originally Posted by purest
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Part of what OWS is doing right now is just getting bigger, which is an end in itself, and one in which it has been tremendously successful at it. Everybody around the country is asking what you are, "what do these people want? so we can give them something and make them go away." The longer they wait to announce specific demands, the more people are gonna be willing to give them. So right now, just growing is an important goal.
A better question is when it comes time to actually get down to specifics, what 1 or 2 things should they settle on? For me, the big thing would be break up the banks (an idea which already has a lot of support in Washington).
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Getting bigger is fine, but the problem is that there's no unifying goal at the core. If they do settle on a small set of defining goals, it's very possible the movement fizzles out as they lose relevance to many. Part of its current appeal is the fact that there's no actual demand at its heart -- it's just a general statement that "Wall Street sucks".
There's also no chance they break up the banks. It's not that I don't think they should. But realistically, the banks wield far too much power within government and have far too much legal firepower to be dispersed. It would take much more than the current Occupy Wall Street protests to break up the banks -- it would take a borderline revolution.