you can’t manufacture a “spontaneous” movement
all you can do it fill it with idiots and paid clowns, which will make it look as ridiculous as it is
Actually, the radical left protesters have already been actively involved in the political process -- since 1968. And in all that time, they have managed to capture power in the White House, the Democrat Party, academia and the news media.
It's just that now it's become clear that radical leftists can do nothing with power except destroy and polarize. There's no "there" there, now that they have spent the last 40 years trying to take down America and proven remarkably successful in implementing their agenda.
OWS was pure astroturf, planned by Van Jones and funded by the SEIU. And as such, it fell apart because of its manufactured status-—they just couldn’t keep it going long, especially after the anarchists infiltrated it and started clashing with the very libs it was supposed to boost.
That wasn't the image they were paying for... The boys at the New York Times wanted OWS to be the justification for their bias and one-sided reporting. Didn't happen. Conservatives caught OWS running employment ads in Craig'sList. Paid protesters - rent-a-mob... Totalitarian crap. The internet exposed them... Police car poopers didn't know the 'protest' was bought and paid for by liberal elites - so they came - and we're NOT welcome...
The MSM was using OWS to push the lies - one that bright attractive college types were on the march again - and liberal elites were once again 'cool'.
It was a lie.
It was like a bunch of 70 year old liberal men with long hair, a few million in 401K's - pitching themselves to 23 year old college girls. It doesn't get any creepier...
I thought OWS ended 6 months ago, when it got cold