And now we're terrorists..

[Daldolma]

The reason the Occupy movement will inevitably fail is the same reason it has become so successful in the first place. The lack of stated goals has allowed a lot of people with diverse interests to join the movement. But the lack of stated goals also prevents the common citizen, who is not outraged enough to protest, from supporting the movement in less drastic ways. The Occupy movement may seem large, but it's a relatively small proportion of the voting public.

The delusions of revolution are misplaced. This is a stable, prosperous country with overwhelming military might. If violence becomes a prominent part of the protests, OWS will die out quickly.

There are changes that could be realized by OWS if they were to settle on a few. For example, the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall. The public would be open to this, if sufficiently educated on the subject, and it would solve some of the core issues being protested against by OWS. OWS could also probably garner enough public support to significantly increase taxes on the wealthy.

But other goals are unattainable. A solution to wealth inequality is not something the majority of the nation would support. There is no consensus on that subject.

Regardless, blockading the port of Oakland isn't helping anything. The people most harmed by such a blockade aren't Wall Street bankers or the financial elite. If you want to harm the financial elite, boycott the stock market and keep your money in a box under your bed, instead of letting them play with it.