It's still going on over 2 years now of course but in general Do you think the movement has overall been a success or a failure? Do you support them?
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Do you think Occupy Wall Street movement is a success or failure?
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Failure. But it had a lot of help in failing. Looking back at how the media covered it is disgusting. We also know for a fact that the government agencies were very eager to help its demise
the movement just like the tea party is started with good intentions then infiltrated, monitored, neutralized then destroyed.
the media obviously is in with the govt. under the disguise of national security. the media cannot aid any real movement that advocates change cause the establishment owns and controls the media.
unlike the tea party which was easy to play the democrats against republicans, and blacks against whites ows had a spark but the hippies just had no heart. a few of them got arrested and they backdown..
the movement was a failure. past tense. it's done. tea party done. ows done. now for the next anti-establishment movement.
Overall it was a failure with no real organization or leader. The the gist of their mission was clear but it's implementation was far from concise. There was very little discipline on the parts of the protesters. And ultimately they changed nothing, Aside from giving police officers ot and hurting small local businesses around them.
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Momentum would have been more important than a leader. To be fair, the average American does not know what the Fed is or how much is our GNP. Hell, some don't even understand the basics of the stock market. 1% of the population owning 40% of the wealth doesn't resonate with most, because they think things were always this way.
They needed a leader or group of leaders. They literally never got shyt accomplished during their meetings because trying to have a fair and open dialect with everyone in the park.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_assembly_(Occupy_movement)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_assembly_(Occupy_movement)
ows was a movement by poor white ppl who thought they'd had enough. same feeling black ppl have been feeling for a while. instead of poor ppl uniting they are easily and quickly played against each other. the elite/establishment keeps poor ppl divided by race and party using the media.
and also keeps them stupid by influencing education and what we learn in school. to them we should be talking about homosexuality than put the wall street criminals in jail. the wall street criminals just pay fines using our money and walk free. and they are the biggest problem in america and the world.
they trolled us into bailing them and european banks out.
it was successful in raising awareness and getting people talking; As a social movement, however, it did identify specific goals or create a powerful local movement center; it resembled infra-politics and never quite coalesced into the powerful juggernaut it could have been; so yes, it was a failure
Huge success. Before OWS I can't ever recall income inequality being discussed in a public forum. Overnight it became a metric for how to judge society on the same level as freedom of speech and basic human rights.
But we're all dull cynics on the internet so "Worst Revolution Ever"...
But we're all dull cynics on the internet so "Worst Revolution Ever"...
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Superstar
Message was OK, execution was terrible. They had so much momentum and did nothing with it.
Not sure how you would measure something like that, but compared to what it could of been, it was an absolute failure.
Majestyx
Duck Season
Occupy the Bushes. failure.
ows was a movement by poor white ppl who thought they'd had enough. same feeling black ppl have been feeling for a while. instead of poor ppl uniting they are easily and quickly played against each other. the elite/establishment keeps poor ppl divided by race and party using the media.
and also keeps them stupid by influencing education and what we learn in school. to them we should be talking about homosexuality than put the wall street criminals in jail. the wall street criminals just pay fines using our money and walk free. and they are the biggest problem in america and the world.
they trolled us into bailing them and european banks out.
how much poor white people or any other people you know could afford to sit around a park all day in nyc without working while having a $2000+ a month rental in williamsburg packed with organic produce? ows was a farce, just upper middle class kids looking to belong to some "interesting" movement like their parents in the 60's. where were the protest about working class new yorkers getting displaced by those hipsters.