"But after successfully tapping into this vein, the Occupiers chose a course best described as doing nothing. They did nothing day after day, week after week, under the mistaken belief that camping in public plazas would prompt some kind of action from others.
Eventually it did, as patient-but-fed-up city governments moved to dismantle the encampments amid concerns about public safety and sanitation. For the most part, authorities deserve kudos for honoring free speech rights and trying to avert violent confrontations. The showdowns left the Occupiers' intended targets, Wall Street types and their supporters in Congress, to chuckle and roll their eyes.
The Occupiers lacked identifiable leaders and clear goals. And they presented bewildering messages to the public, epitomized in the irony of people sitting idle to protest those who had made fortunes.
Yet the issue that gave Occupy traction — wealth concentration and shrinking economic opportunity for the middle class — still resonates, leaving an opportunity that a more focused movement will eventually exploit.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/story/2012-02-09/Occupy-movement-wealth-income/53032740/1
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