The writers of the Federalist papers would be considered extreme right wingers by today's standards, and they were the left wingers of the day. Madison had begun to regret the formation of the federal government within a decade of its inception, as it became clear that those in power would abuse it, and that no matter how clearly they wrote the Constitution to restrain the federal government, some jackass would come along and rule lawyer his way into interpreting the commerce clause as giving government the right to preside over every single commercial activity.
The problem with OWS is that they have never given a better alternative to the problems they have identified. "Stop corruption" and "end corporate influence in Washington" are not courses of action. I get the feeling that the vast majority of them would gladly give the government more power under the guise of solving these problems, whereas centralized power is the root of these problems.
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