Occupy popularized consciousness of the extreme inequality of wealth growing in the US. It also protested the bailouts that aided Wall Street, but few others. Their ideas were potentially revolutionary, but they had no revolutionary program; they had no program, at all.
Still, the FBI saw them as such a threat, they were going to assassinate the leaders!
Some Occupiers spoke of revolution: we had one stay with us for four days; too long, but their ideas were for the kind of non-violent change that made sense--unless you felt the wealthy must be defended at all costs.
The
FBI plotting reveals which people they're really defending: it ain't you and
me. It's the wealthy: Occupy identified them as "the One Percent."
Maybe their protectors are pulling Obama's strings, too. That might explain a lot.
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