Occupy Wall Street - Against all odds

A movement that has kept everyone in power guessing where it will go or lead to. A leaderless, rudderless, moneyless movement, but letting their strong feelings out to show they have to do something just like how a baby starts crying if he needs to be cared for. A majority of people in the country and now the world seem to join in this silent revolution, of sorts.

The big question is not what these protester are crying for, its what it will eventually achieve. I for one, feel, it is powerful and is gaining traction in terms of at least one important agenda. Sensitizing people on the ills of a overly exploited capitalistic world. Capitalism is unquestionably the best out there, but unchecked capitalism will lead to the exact situations such as these. Disparity of the rich and the middle.Class war. Resentment builds, and an unconnected and unnecessary  chain of reactions result that can be worse than the intent of the revolution. Incidentally, Nobel Prize winning Economist Paul Krugman has been supportive but does not want to join them just to avoid being called an activist- he prefers to be an advocate. He wrote that the protesters are, "angry at the right people" and that the "protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve the interests of the wealthiest hundredth of a percent."

President Obama is missing a wonderful MLK moment for his legacy. To show leadership, take a position that has guts even if it contradicts his party or his re-election. One can only engineer to some extent an election. His 2008 win was not a result of his oratory skills or his educational pedigree but because of a variety of factors for which he can take no credit. One will never become a leader because one wants to be one, one can become a leader when one can identify a working solution for a problem, against all odds.

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