Yeah (yawn) it's unstoppable, it's a tidal wave picking up steam like an avalanche, yeah, yeah...
...Occupy Wall Street may serve as a spark to that political movement, something far more powerful and transformative than the Tea Party...
Not much doubt now that what we've been saying for the last month is true: this thing is laughably contrived and breathlessly reported by people whose sole object is to marginalize a legitimate populist movement by publicizing a phony one. It doesn't look as if it's working but you can bet we'll be told that it is, all the way to November 2012.
One has to gaze in open-mouthed wonder at the degree to which this cheerleading is dissociated from the real world. The OWS people have, states the author, "resisted" some fictional demand to settle on a single objective. It is not, as the author implies, a virtue; what we hear is, in fact, an incoherent torrent of mindless platitudes, ill-formed accusations, and heady abstractions to which no coherent program ever could be attached. Precisely how much "transformation" the author expects from a movement with no objectives is a marvel of modern political doublethink. Nothing will be transformed, but an old game might be repackaged.
That is also a fair working description of the 0bama campaign of 2008 and the one to come in 2012. Make no mistake about it: this is 0bama's campaign for re-election taking shape and it is as inchoate, disorganized, self-contradictory, and incompetent as his administration has been.