Occupy Wall Street: Notable Subgroups

Without a doubt, there are some sincere occupiers with noble intentions.  But, I am sure, these comprise a small minority.  Most streeters fall into several broad categories as follows:

 Retros  - “Folks” who have drunk the Jesse Jackson juice, causing them to become inebriated with the suggestion that the Wall Street protestors are heirs to the black civil rights movements.  Devoid of self esteem, the poor bastards need something to give them a bogus sense of value.

Quackos - More to be pitied than censured (as my grandmother used to say), these are persons terminally deficient in common sense.  They believe that the best way to lift themselves up is to drag other people down.   Like Jeremiah Wright, they also think that the United States created Aids to harm black people and that Paramount staged the 1969 moon landing.

Wackos - Flat out crazies.  Paranoids, psychopaths, and others of that ilk attempting to cope with their own psychotic-like confusion.  First, they project their delusions onto convenient targets, and then they do battle with them, thereby absolving themselves from personal responsibility for their own misery.

Smackos - Heroin, alcohol, and other substance abusers who regard Occupy encampments as nice places to conduct their drug business, have a bite to eat, and catch some Zs. 

Slackos - These are people who think that work is for saps.  They just love “hanging out.”  They wouldn’t stoop to doing any job for which they are qualified.   Many aspire to the NBA or NFL.

Bandidos – Criminals in the crowd, tingling with the excitement of kids in a candy store.  They single-out easy, naïve marks to rob or abuse within the relative anonymity of the teeming throng.

Subtract the retros, quackos, wackos, smackos, slackos, and bandidtos and what have you got?  About two dozen people who have genuine grievances and genuine desire to make a positive difference.  These are ones who you can talk to, the ones you can work with, and the ones who can help us make constructive social changes.  It would be nice to find a way to separate them out from the miscreants.