OWS has reached levels of online interest that dwarf the Tea Party at its peak. Yet, the media does not seem to reflect the cultural movement.

Here’s a good reflection:

We’re finding that large majorities of Americans share its concern about rising inequality. Whatever David Brooks says, 66 percent in his own newspaper’s poll support more taxation from the very wealthy and successful. And that’s in a country that has just emerged from a bout of Steve Jobs worship. Americans are not anti-capitalism. They are opposed to what has happened to capitalism and to a non-corrupt democracy, as it has been revealed by the last three years. They are concerned about the collapse of social mobility in America, another crucial element in this polity’s stability.

If the right sees this as a call to reform capitalism rather than abolish it, some common ground is possible. In my view, that common ground is where Obama needs to pitch his campaign tent.