[mookiemookie]

I don't think the solution is to dismantle capitalism, and I'd wager a large percentage of the protesters would say the same thing. But capitalism isn't bailouts. It isn't privatizing the profits and socializing the losses. It isn't where regulatory capture means that businesses write their own rules to their advantage and to the disadvantage of competition or fair trade practices.

To imply that these folks by and large want an end to capitalism is misrepresentation and strawman arguing on a massive scale.

There's fringe elements there, sure. The Tea Party had a lot of fringe elements as well. But the good thing is that it raises these issues in the national consciousness.