Reply #4: "They" is anybody that says OWS needs "leaders" or "specific demands". [View All]

[bemildred]

OWS may or may not want such things at some point, but it hardly needs them now, and in fact they would be counter-productive, offering the enemies of OWS specific points of attack. As long as it's just "the People" complaining about the shitty, incompetent way the country has been run, there is nothing much that can be attacked, the country has INDEED been run in a shitty, incompetent way; and "the People" are the source of all legitimacy and sovereignty in our government.

Edit: the first thing that has to happen is to re-establish that "the People" are the boss in our political system, that the views of the public OUGHT to determine policy, even when some ego-driven politician thinks they are wrong. Failing that, nothing useful will follow. Compare with Iceland, where exactly that occurred, the public revolted and took back the government, and things are now getting better again, no more babble about "austerity" and such like.