“While I will readily confess I find it odd as something of a Burkean that I am sympathetic to these protestors, they are not looking to trot out the guillotines, in the main (though I did spot a “Behead the Fed” sign!), but rather, they have smelled the radicalism of body blows dealt to a representative democratic system presented by almost unfettered oligarch-like behavior among too many elites wholly disconnected from, yes, the 99% they speak of. They are acting to secure conservative aims of re-balancing a society that is becoming dangerously unmoored and increasingly bent asunder. They want accountability and dignity and prospects. Their leaders have failed them. So they have taken to the street to lead themselves.”
— Greg Djerejian, the Halley’s Comet of blogging, has a (mostly) positive assessment of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Well worth your time.
(Source: belgraviadispatch.com)
