Requiem For Occupy Movement

Yet, over the last couple weeks, the Occupy movement, which had promised to give voice to those who were bleeding in the streets, very nearly succumbed to self-inflicted wounds. The movement will doubtlessly continue, in regional and minor ways, for months, if not years, but it no longer threatens to substantially alter our country’s direction as it did in October, or as the tea party has continued to do for conservatives. For a month, the only national stories about the Occupy movement have involved their evictions from parks and numerous examples of excessive force by the police. Because no one tried to harness or focus the movement’s substantial momentum — to do so would have been uncool — it has lost its momentum. We are left to wonder what the movement could have accomplished if it hadn’t been an amorphous blob of disorganized people who couldn’t gather around a vivid message or mission/ Peter Mountford , Seattle Times guest opinion. More here. (AP file photo of Occupy Seattle protestor being treated for pepper spray)

Question: Do you agree that the Occupy Wall Street movement blew its chance to make a difference?