Occupy Wall Street movement has hit a wall

[Valin]

Washington Post:

 

Dana Milbank

6/18/12

 

The Occupy movement is preoccupied.

 

In October, when liberal activists gathered in Washington, they had hopes that the nascent Occupy Wall Street movement would become the left’s answer to the tea party.

 

But this time around — the annual Take Back the American Dream Conference was moved up to June this election year — the Occupy encampments are gone, and participants in the conference were pondering what went wrong. Or, as activist Van Jones put it to them, what has become of “the voice that is missing.”

 

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A couple of quick thoughts...

A. Nascent? Anyone who is aware of "Progressive" politics would call the occupy movement nascent. Of course the same can be said of the Tea Party, and the Right

 

B. Recall all the stories that have been written writing off the Tea Party, have been....mistaken, I suspect the same is true with the Occupy Movement. There will always be children...and those who want to lead/use them.