“God bless them for their spontaneity,” “It’s young, it’s spontaneous, it’s focused and it’s going to be effective.”
Nancy Pelosi 10/6/11
I'll concede to Pelosi that on average the demonstrators are younger than the general adult population, but not all of them are young.
The demonstrations are just the opposite of "spontaneous" (many organized pro-Obama groups such as SEIU and Adbusters are involved, and recall that the New York Occupy Wall Street event had been announced for a specific date and place weeks before).
As for "focused," listening to interviews with demonstrators suggests that they have little in the way of a common agenda. They are more focused on debauchery than message.
And the only way in which they are going to be "effective" is in alienating the general public from the incumbent administration and incumbent party, much as the Chicago demonstration and riot at near 1968 Democratic Convention did. As usual, Democrats like Pelosi seem to be oblivious to history.