NP - What Occupy Did to 2012, What It Will Do to 2013

[David Morris]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/harry-reid-occupy-110812

>From the start, it's been my opinion that the very least you could say
about the movement was that people were yelling at the correct buildings.
And, I agree with Todd
Gitlin<http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-charter-for-the-99-percent>in
that the first iteration of the movement pushed things about as far as
it possibly could. But its effect on the election just passed could not be
more profound, and it should not be ignored — though it likely will be — by
the rest of the people trying to make sense of What It All Means. Occupy
changed the national dialogue. Willard Romney's surreptitiously taped
comments about "the 47 percent" would not have had the resonance they did
had the Occupy movement not gotten the country talking about the 99 percent
and the one percent. It created a new rhetorical paradigm that simply would
not have been there had it not been originally shouted at the correct
buildings. And it was that new paradigm that triumphed Tuesday night.
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