I'm as baffled by Occupy Wall Street as I am by the Tea Party protests, neither of which seem to have a coherent core of belief.
I think that the Tea Party movement was in large part driven by private money and older people who had some personal beef with the government-- a perception informed mainly by the Tea Party people I talked to (one of whom was upset because he had been rejected in his bid for Social Security Disability checks).
The Occupy Wall Street protests are (unlike the Tea Party) not something I have personally observed, but they seem even more unfocused and are driven largely by unemployed people who have time on their hands and anger to express.
The media seems to think that Occupy Wall Street is a significant development, but I am not so sure it is going to have an impact-- being vaguely mad at rich people is not much of a political platform.
What do you think is going on?
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