Opinion of "Occupy Wall Street" opponents

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I really don't understand a genuine opposition to this movement. The only things I can see driving the opposition are misplaced anger and manipulative media coverage. The people posting their accomplishments as the "53%" are proud of what they've done and should be. The reason they're proud is because it's not easy. I'm not understanding how they don't make that connection and support others who haven't been able to do something about the same issues they faced. I see that as anger that they're fighting against the obstacles instead of accepting them and maneuvering through unacceptable prevention of upward mobility. They're perhaps bitter that people aren't accepting that their woes are their own fault. And they're not their fault in far too many cases, that's the issue. They don't think we should tear down the things they had to work so hard to get around. Those obstacles shouldn't be there in the first place and aren't natural things to be faced with. They're obstacles being imposed by a weak government that bends over backwards to make things easier for a select few businesses that extort earnings. The anger should be directed towards the people who have been putting up the obstacles, not the people trying to tear them down. That makes absolutely no sense to me.

The media coverage on the other hand I understand perfectly and am disgusted by the zombie-like acceptance of anything we're fed. The coverage of this movement at its most positive is condescending and dismissive. We are constantly being told not to accept protests because they're automatically immature, pointless, and unAmerican. Of course it is when the companies broadcasting coverage are part of the problem being protested. It's an amazing display of manipulation that really, really bothers me. It's almost automatic to follow exactly what the coverage says about an event even when the bias is so obvious. It's another symptom of what I think is an increasingly lazy (intellectually, physically, emotionally) American populace.

Prove me wrong. Please, prove me wrong. I'd rather have to deal with people opposing the politics of a movement (even when it's so universal), than people essentially opposing themselves for no logical reason in particular.

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There's a lot wrong with that paper. Not the least of which is the American obsession with being "better" by ruining our own lives. How great of a life is it when you work 5AM to 10PM and can't even get up to pee? And hurling an insult like "we're going to landscape our own back yards" is probably the most telling. Poor us, you're going to do something tangible for yourself instead of playing with people's money until it builds artificial wealth that comes crashing down after people realize it's not real. I for one have been complaining about the economy since before it was really bad, not that it should matter anyway. I don't see how it's the general public's responsibility to police the experts' conduct within their own field. What that person doesn't realize is that they're no better off than the people he/she is looking SO far down upon. They're working too hard for too little just to spend it on things they don't need. Plus, "vicious" is a positive personality trait now? We are so effed...