Ok. Now I have your attention. If you decide to protest by camping out on my front lawn, I’m not sure it would make a compelling political statement. But if you choose to put up your tent there, I am more likely to give you cookies than to lob canisters of tear gas at you.
What I want to say is that I’m really inspired by OWS and its many affinity groups. It reminds me that there are still things to believe in and still some values in public life that just can’t get suffocated by cynicism. I haven’t felt that way in awhile. I haven’t felt that way in a long time.
I get really angry at those people who criticize OWS by saying that they don’t have a constructive program. This is usually coming from people who don’t have one either or, more likely, have programs that are in conflict with everything we have learned to believe is good and true and beautiful.
