So now Occupy is against world trade and capitalism? They will lose support of the 50+% of the 99%

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35. The rich buying the government. A lack of taxes on the rich. Credit card legislation that helps

the banks and not the people or small business. Deregulations that result in a lack of competition as the mid sized corporations are all destroyed. Drug laws that favour white people over black. A lack of people centered news and information. Inadequate regulation where there is need for the public good. The privitization of schools, the dismantleling of union laws. And on and on. There is a **** load of stuff that needs to be fought against not just the things I mention above. Calling capitalism the enemy only isolates the middle from the left. Fight against naked capitalism or crony capitalism instead. That was Occupy's message and it warmed the hearts and lit a fire in the belly of Americans on the left and in the middle. People from all walks of life wanted to be part of the 99%.

Now fighting NATO (which freed Lybia, stopped ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, and went after bin Laden who did attack the USA) is popular with a smaller group of Americans. And fighting against 'capitalism' will isolate Occupy even more. Because mixed market capitalism won the cold war and now every country in the world, with the exception of North Korea, practices one form or another mixed market capitalism. You lose the message by being against these two things. And when Occupy loses its popular message, it may make some on the left feel whole, but it will not get independants to feel part of something greater than the hierarchical world view the plutocrats and corporations have been imposing on Americans for 30 years. They'll go back to being sliced up and diced up by wedge issues instead of wanting to be part of the 99%.