Flourishing Protest

The Truthless Reconciler might need to eat some crow. Yesterday I predicted that the Occupy Wall STreet movement was fizzling out - which is the same prediction I made when the movement started - and again, I appear to have been wrong. These various cities were probably hoping  and thinking that the protests would fizzle, but after two months they appeared to be doing the opposite, so the cities began to feel panicky, and started using the police to break it up. But everywhere they broke it up, it came back, stronger than ever.

In order to be effective, this protest will have to endure and flourish for years, and it certainly hasn't proven yet that it can do that. The women's rights protest movement, the racial equality movement, and the anti-Viet Nam war movement all were effective, because they persisted for years, and because they steadily gained new members. That's what the current movement must do.

The women's movement succeeded when it gained support from men, the black equality movement became successful when it gained the support of non blacks, and the Viet Nam protests became effective when they expanded to include more than just college students.

Right now, Occupy Wall Street is indeed mainly college students, but it alrready has more support elsewhere, in a large percentage of the population, if not 99%. Millions of Americans are sympathetic to the cause, but are at home comfortably watching on TV.

What exactly is the cause? Greater, much greater, social, political, and economic equality.
Power to the people.