What it has grown into is a bunch of sound and fury for nothing...
I can totally agree with this. For over a month, in the San Francisco Bay Area, there's been multiple cities in which people have been "occupying" places to send a message. What seems to escape them is that, despite the passing weeks, not once has ANYONE bothered to talk with the protesters, listen to their qualms in an "official" manner, or aim toward changing the direction of the society (local or wide-spreading) in general.
So what is the point of a protest when it becomes quite obvious that no one gives a damn about anything except the problems these people cause for others?--I'm on the side of the "message" of these protests, but c'mon, if politicians don't give a shit, powerful businessmen don't care, and even something as small (but nevertheless influential) as a local small-businesses organisation can't be brought to be influenced by all this effort, shouldn't it be clear that the current methods aren't working and "remaining firm" in protest isn't anything but a waste of time and energy?
Some people are really hardcore and want to make a difference, but if they were smart about it, they'd be working on developing a new plan-of-attack which could, at the minimum, use the continued media coverage and numbers of poaching-peoples to their advantage.