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Occupy Wall Street doesn't have one theme or message because it hasn't been organized by one political faction or corporate interest. This is hard for people to accept because they need a simple message to repeat or they really don't know what to think. Unlike the tea party movement there is no clear cut enemy (obama) so it’s easy for anti OWS pundits to make the protest look disorganized and irrelevant.
The best thing for OWS to do is model the tea party and get billionaire backers like the Koch brothers that can buy the movement some much needed media and political capital. However this would go against the principles of the protests.
From my own research OWS comes down to this:
Corporations like Citigroup, AIG, and others are part of the political thinking that believes the free market should determine regulations, salaries, profits etc. By taking an undisclosed amount of tax payer’s money (Tarp numbers are bullshit) the corporations have broken the free market model themselves and created a socialist corporate environment with a government safety net. So the tax payer has now basically nationalized these corporations, but the corporations still get the benefits of a free market.
This is a complex problem that can`t be solved by saying lower taxes! Smaller government! Bomb Iran! Therefore it is not media friendly which makes most Americans afraid.
The reason they trust Obama over the republicans is the protests are in New York, an international city with high immigration, strict gun laws, and a diverse population (3 things republicans despise). Also there are a high number of protesters who are under 40 that protested the Iraq war in the crowds, needless to say they were lied to by Bush about Iraq and that will alter their voting habits for at least the next 10 years.
That’s my take on this
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