The thing is..... I firmly believe that we need to address the growing gap between the rich and the poor, the growing control of government by corporate interests, democracy become a plutocracy... but I have a job that I have to be at. If someone were to give me three months salary, I'd gladly take the three months off of work to protest with the #occupiers. But most of us who side with the general issues cited by the #occupiers don't have the option to protest with them. So who does end up down there? The poor, generally unemployed and under-educated... which doesn't put a good face on the movement.
Someone a while back said that the movement should take this to the political arena and vote for whichever party stands for limiting lobbiest control of government, removing corporate control of the government agenda, changing policies so that the poor have better opportunities to break out of the cycle of poverty. However, with corporations giving more and more to political parties, particularly in the United States where the recent Supreme Court ruling stated that corporations should not be limited in their political donations, the elections are now a propoganda circus. The fight between turd sandwich and the giant ###### is not for votes, but rather for whomever can raise the most money. I think one reason that voting is down in North America is because people don't believe that there is a candidate out there that represents their interests.
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