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by shadofx 1784 days ago
Occupy Wall Street was a unified voice. Nothing was achieved because there was no clear goal.
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And Tiannamen was crushed, but one still has to try, as the watershed moment or breaking point can come in the blink of an eye.

It's my view that Occupy was dismantled by the vested interests it confronted, in the form of paid editorial hit jobs, much as anything that threatens large hegemonies of power. The goal was simple and achieved: awareness of how Wall Street gambling led to the global economic crisis of 2007 and 8 It was ahead of it's time, and will later be seen as such.

What is puzzling to me is how easily that anti-elite message was hijacked by Trumpkins and his elitest of silver-spooned back-scratching politics, which certainly goes against the spirit of Occupy. The takeaway is that there is a public for anti-elite messaging, but that it's now possible to weaponize that in order to innoculate that very same public against targeting you...Trumpkins public is rightfully socialist, just brainwashed by the very elites they think themselves against, lol