Will They Mayday on May Day? Only if we march.

[David Morris]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/occupy-may-day-8509332

There is a strong feeling, and not merely on the right or from our
gloriously apathetic Center, that the Occupy people have had their
time on the stage, that it is time for another show to begin. Nobody's
ready for a remix. Nobody's ready for a reboot. (Me? I'm still trying
to figure out why in hell they're bringing back Dallas.) And nobody,
certainly, is prepared to admit that what started in Zuccotti Park and
a hundred other places might have permanently affected the way
Americans looked at the connections between how the country does its
business and how the country runs its government.

[...]

The governing elites, all of them, were complicit in massive fraud
against the rest of us. Either they participated in it, which would be
the bankers and (it appears) their lawyers, or they condoned and
celebrated it, which would be the financial press and the elite media,
or they shirked their duty to protect the political commonwealth from
being hijacked, which would be the members of both parties in the
government, and us, for letting so much of the country run on
automatic pilot for so long.

This was a banana republic. It was a failed state in everything except
the fact that no tanks rolled in the streets. The terrorists were not
hiding in Waziristan. They were having lunch at Cipriani's and sitting
in luxury boxes at the Meadowlands. The government existed only to
increase their profits and to provide a quasi-legal context for
organized piracy. There was an extraordinary contempt for the law, for
the institutions of government, and for the people the law and those
institutions were supposed to serve. The country was cored out. It was
a shell of a country and a shell corporation, and it has not recovered
yet.

>From the start, I said that the best thing about the Occupy movement
was that at least they were yelling at the right buildings.

[...]

If the Occupy people want to march, I say let them march. If they
resist conventional politics, that may be because conventional
politics are worth resisting. What I do know is that, if i weren't for
the people in the streets last autumn, the Obama people would be
running a very different campaign and Willard Romney wouldn't look
half as ridiculous as he does. Somebody has to care enough not to
care.