It is Day 10 of #occupywallstreet. Protesters are still there, despite heavy police intimidation and some real violence.
This diary is for all of us, but especially for those of us at DKos who have been looking at the #occupywallstreet protest and thinking, saying, and commenting things like “this will never work because of X.”
If this protest fails to get results, it will not be because of lack of organization, or failure to have a coherent message, or because people didn’t wear the right clothes, or there were too many college students, too many inexperienced white kids who haven’t really suffered, too many dirty fucking hippies.
It will be because enough naysayers did not get up off of their sorry asses and get out in the streets.
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