Forum Post: Where does the vitriol of the critics come from? I don't get it.

Detractors, from drunk bloggers to paid opinionators, declared the movement a failure from day one. It’s too disorganized, they said. They have no demands, they said. As if an impromptu gathering of self-proclaimed dissenters should have central control and talking points. Popular critics so far have failed to appreciate the process by which group consensus is imperfectly grown. And without even a hint of irony they aggressively attack this movement for its irrelevance.

There is no truer example of democracy than this genuine grass-roots movement that has taken precarious root in Liberty Plaza. Their only sponsor is themselves, ambitious misfits compelled to action by an abysmal national wealth disparity and their government’s complete failure to respond.

The heart and soul of Occupy Wall Street is comprised of mere hundreds that have hunkered down in a spartan concrete park, impervious to the rain or to the unrelenting intimidation and abuse by the NYPD. Their ranks swell into the thousands for Saturday forays into the city as disobedient corporate servants turned weekend warriors join the fight. They come from everywhere.

Ultimately this is a politically and socioeconomically disparate collection of Americans that are trying to find common ground in order to unfuck the kleptomaniacal status quo. Find something wrong with that, more American or noble than that, and get back to me.