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In reply to the discussion: Protesters again take to uptown streets (of Charlotte) [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)No one noticed them, in any event. Their efforts failed because they had no critical mass. Their numbers keep shrinking because they aren't DOING anything, except complaining. Do they have a right to do that? Sure. Anyone has a right to look like a pointless scold in this country--it's one of the great things about the place. But are they doing any good? No. They're patting themselves on the back, but the people making a difference are INSIDE the Convention Center.
On the one hand, you are complaining about media accuracy, and then when the media covers even this pathetic little Occupy-permitted march and encampment (to include the few dozens tents and the Occupy the DNC sign) you say it's not Occupy.
It is Occupy. And it was a flop. They are tone deaf, are always in the wrong place at the wrong time, the only attention they can get is either negative or pathetic, and they blew their chance.
They had a moment when they first fired up, they attracted a lot of good initial attention, they got millions of dollars donated to their cause... and they wasted it. They have nothing to show for all their drama except a few memories of pungent campsites in urban settings. If they had a Ghandi, they'd be in a different situation, but their leaderless structure and their failure to engage in the political process in a meaningful way has doomed them to failure. That organic shit never lasts for long. And if you don't vote, you don't count.