do people still genuinely think, after witnessing all the irs scandals and political agencies abused in various ways, nsa, etc, that problem is still limited to 'money' and wall street, like a 16 year old teen after watching his dozen of hollywood movies would characterize?
you don't just 'buy' a compound bigger than the pentagon out in the desert of nowhere because some corporation decides it wants info on 300 million americans. yes occupy movement died, because it was childish. some members will carry on, but they will mature, and protest will coalesce under a more grown up cause that better describes the problem
Yes, the problem was and is an elite establishment, in this case the Banksters/Wall Street face of it, that through corporate welfare, control of the bureuacracies and the pols, gets away with just about everything, and makes Main St pay for it. The Occupy movement began as a populist left (in sentiment) expression, much as the Tea Party began as a populist right expression of the same sense of injustice at the
entire establishment, not just the left or right. Their lament was not so much that of protestors as it was of crime victims, who know the white shoe guys got away with the loot, and are still on the lam. I know many Libertarians in NYC who participated in the main Occupy encampment, who can confirm it was originally non-partisan and not hack-left in nature.
What happened is (like the Tea Party), it got co-opted from within, and marginalized from without wherever it did not assent to being co-opted. 'Professional liberals' afraid of an independent movement during an election cycle, got in and steered the message to a "tax the rich" rant against the GOP, not the 1%. The Occupy protests that were focused around the original goals were shut down by
liberal politicians from Obama on down. Just like how the original TP was co-opted by neocons, while demonized as 'racist' or extremist by the media.
The arrests of OWS were meant to scare away the right from joining it, just as the racist smears were meant to scare away the Democrats who were involved with the TP early on, in order to send everybody back to the safe two-party paradigm. The OWS movement was NOT childish any more than the TP was. It was yet another victim of the power elite's co-opt-or-marginalize system for squashing alternative movements. As the Matrix's Architect says: "This will be the sixth time we will have destroyed Zion, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it."
