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Since you mentioned it, I think the underlying theme of the OWS movement is the rampant amount of pandering to special interest and lobbying groups due to campaign contributions and other quid pro quo shenanigans. Sure there's other random groups trying to throw in there two cents, but this is the main quibble.

Is this really that hard to understand?

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I think the underlying theme of the OWS movement is the rampant amount of pandering to special interest and lobbying groups due to campaign contributions and other quid pro quo shenanigans

Ironically, this also happens to be the underlying theme of the Tea Party movement.

Or rather, that's what you get if you ask a sufficiently clever member of either movement to strip down their movement into the most universally-popular motherhood statement they can think of.

That's what the Tea Party says, but the things they back as a whole are, oddly enough, pretty much in line for what corporate lobbyists want. Interesting coincidence, that.

"Separation of church and corporation" is one way I've heard that expressed.

"Separation of corporation and state" is more like it.

Succinct, unburdened, and who really could disagree (aside from corporations and the media appendages who love them).

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