Reply #3: I agree with you in part on this, but only in part [View All]

[ThomWV]

I think you are exactly right that this was just the first skirmish, but I also think a natural let-up is right around the corner. Winter will slow down everything, the OWS will fade but not die and something else is going to rise up in the Spring. It will be much like OWS but more strident, more forceful. There will be confrontations all around the country and they will grow worse as the Conventions convene. I think the Republican Convention will have the tightest security and most police brutality of any in history but I expect bloodshed at (outside) the Democratic Convention. The confrontation between the ideological extremes will come next summer.