happened is that republicans declared victory on the issue of infrastructure. republicans in congress declared that they got what they wanted. they are celebrating that they think they have brought down the administration's plans to invest in high-speed rail. you know, like what china already has tons p. the big victory today for the republicans in washington, whoo-hoo, no trains! we won! now everything's going to be awesome. the occupy wall street protests are not particularly oriented toward electoral politics. at least not yet. this is not being run by some political consultant, right? they're not gearing up to be running candidates in the primaries at this point. this does not seem to be that type of transactional movement at this point. if you're a person who's interested in american politics, american politics of all kinds, we're sort of left now trying to understand these parallel tracks. not train tracks. no, we're having no trains. they're not train tracks, but they are parallel. there is this rather unruly, ungoverned, almost protean