re: #704 Simply Sarah

Granted, but generally you need to be made aware of a problem before you can properly address it. So people realizing those things is a first step. It’s not a solution in itself, but it’s required before real change can occur. But you’re right, the next steps need to be taken for the realizations to truly come to anything.

The problem is, those next steps will probably never happen.

OWS should have highlighted all those things. Instead, it got turned into a bunch of lazy, dirty hippies who didn’t want to work for anything and who are somehow Marxist terrorists and who deserve a fate worse than death for slowing down traffic and making pizza a vegetable.

The narrative worked perfectly. People focused on the negative, the well got poisoned, and now people hate OWS while the same corrupt practices that led to the protests in the first place have been ignored and will go on indefinitely.