How the movement has already shaken up American politics, and where it should go from here.
Occupy Wall Street
has already won, perhaps not the victory most of its participants want,
but a momentous victory nonetheless. It has already altered our
political debate, changed the agenda, shifted the discussion in
newspapers, on cable TV, and even around the water cooler. And that is
wonderful.
Suddenly, the issues of equity, fairness, justice, income
distribution, and accountability for the economic cataclysm–issues all
but ignored for a generation—are front and center. We have moved beyond
the one-dimensional conversation about how much and where to cut the
deficit. Questions more central to the social fabric of our nation have
returned to the heart of the political debate. By forcing this new
discussion, OWS has made most of the other participants in our
politics—who either didn’t want to have this conversation or weren’t
able to make it happen—look pretty small.
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