Given the facts of income distribution in the United States, the trends in real middle class incomes and poverty, the failure of policy to do much to change these trends, the government bailouts of the only class that's benefited from the recovery so far, the absence of clear punishment for the financial and political institutions that helped inflate the debt bubble that continues to squeeze economies across the globe, and the dysfunctionality of the current political system, why is anyone asking what the Occupy Wall Street protests are about? The more interesting question is: what took so long for such protests to show up?