Why WE need the Occupy Movement NOW!

Occupy Wall Street lost , the Tea Party
won in 2016 , when Donald J Trump
became the American President .

Why  WE need the Occupy Movement NOW! The vary same people that took to the streets in 2011 demanding change during the Obama era , RIGHT now should be taking the streets and protesting. (1)>>Lo OCCUPIERS !!! WALL STREET & 1% won out with the 2016 election of Donald Trump .  (1.2)>>The RICH GUY , the BILLIONAIRE became the American President! & WHERE are these idiots ??? , that helped Obama win a second term in 2012 ,  (1.3)>>made Sen. Mitt Romney a butt of jokes? In just one generation, they’ve gone from Clinton to Bush to Obama to Trump, oscillating from one kind of candidate to its near opposite of middle class and poor Americans . BUT the super rich have dominated American politics for decades , with their power , wealth , they may have manipulated the votes of 2016 in favor of Donald J Trump .    Remember the  Tea Party movement came into being (2)>>to oppose Obama's policies , and since then has been an almost continuous thorn in the side of the Republican Party establishment. Remember again that the  (2.1)>>Tea Party created Donald Trump. Trump has been embolden by Tea Party rhetoric,White Nationalism . The warning signs where there , but the American voter saw Trump as the outsider fighting for

My Personal Copy of
some Occupy Book published
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Americans struggling to make a living .  (3)>> Occupy Wall Street burst onto the scene, using Zuccotti Park as a staging ground in New York City, spawning marches, demonstrations, and other protests in numerous cities in the months ahead. And despite their differences, the populist, anti-elite, and anti-establishment forces at work in both movements have manifested themselves in bold relief within the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Bernie Sanders. And now, both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street have fallen on hard times. (4)>>Occupy Wall Street no longer exists, though it has surely helped to spawn offshoots, including Black Lives Matter. The Tea Party is still around, but has seemingly faded in visibility, though it’s still more than capable of discouraging Republicans from negotiating compromises with Democrats on anything that touches on the bedrock principles of the movement. Occupy had within it the seeds of its own failure. Its leaders refused to call themselves leaders and were too arrogant about politics to have anything to do with the political process.Not only did they refuse to court sympathetic politicians, they actively rebuffed them.The tea party is not strictly comparable because it started out as a well-backed top down movement, but it had the Republican Party eating out of its hand in no time. Would that Occupy had been so smart.   It should be still around now at full force .   The leaderless movement had no clear goals, but had attracted thousands of participants and plenty of media coverage.  But it went out in a whimper ,  Wall Street won big time , the  corporations  grew  and the rich man Billionare Donald J Trump is now President .

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(1)>>Lo OCCUPIERS !!! WALL STREET . Others praised Occupy for building a political consciousness that fueled Occupy Sandy, Black Lives Matter, Fight for 15, and the anti–Keystone Pipeline protests, among others. As Sean Illing wrote for Salon, “Occupy Wall Street didn’t so much fail as fracture into various groups and causes.” These offshoots, he argued, might directly challenge corporate power in a way the original movement never could. One of Occupy’s largely unrecognized victories is the momentum it built for a higher minimum wage. The Occupy protests motivated fast-food workers in New York City to walk off the job in November 2012, sparking a national worker-led movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. In 2014, numerous cities and states including four Republican-dominated ones—Arkansas, Alaska, Nebraska, and South Dakota—voted for higher pay; 2016 will see more showdowns in New York City and Washington, D.C., and in states like Florida, Maine, and Oregon. From Seattle to Los Angeles to Chicago, some of the country’s largest cities are setting a new economic bar to help low-income workers.(1.2)>>The RICH GUY , the BILLIONAIRE became the American President!So why then are so many billionaires running for president in the 2020 cycle or shopping for the office? Faux billionaire Donald Trump is obviously in again. (He’s been running since he was elected the first time.) Michael Bloomberg and Starbucks mogul Howard Schultz have taxied their personal jets onto the runway. Fellow plutocrat Tom Steyer was flying in formation with them until early January when he bowed out after assessing his chances, although he’s still a player, having pledged $40 million just to impeach Trump. And don’t forget the coquettish billionaires who’ve visited Iowa or otherwise teased the press with the notice of a candidacy: Mark Cuban, Oprah Winfrey, Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and Bob Iger. This is a bestiary of plutocrats so plentiful it would require Audubon to collect, paint and stuff them for inspection by a political taxonomist.   (1.3)>>made Sen. Mitt Romney a butt of jokes? Romney has alluded to the makers-versus-takers worldview before, notably with his attacks on Obama'schanges to welfare policy. In an interview with USA Today three weeks ago, he claimed that Obama was looking to "shore up his base" by expanding welfare. (He has also memorably said, "I'm not concerned about the very poor," because those living in dire poverty already have an adequate safety net and don't need more government help.) But as Conor Friedersdorf notes, the bluntness and behind-closed-doors aspects of the secret video give it force. As with then-candidate Obama's infamous "clinging to guns or religion" riff, also surreptitiously taped at a closed-press fundraiser, the Romney recording reinforces the well-founded suspicion that politicians aren't telling us what they really think. In other words, the fact that Romney was speaking confidentially to a group of wealthy donors makes him seem both callous and phony . (2)>>to oppose Obama's policies. The Republicans were pumped because they saw a path out of the political wilderness. They were convinced that even if Obama kept winning policy battles, they could win the broader messaging war simply by remaining unified and fighting him on everything. Their conference chairman, a then-obscure Indiana conservative named Mike Pence, underscored the point with a clip from Patton, showing the general rallying his troops for war against their Nazi enemy: “We’re going to kick the hell out of him all the time! We’re going to go through him like crap through a goose!” Remember this that the "Deep State" wants US to believe it was Russia that elected Trump , but as REALITY is soon  going to set in and to many Americans  as far as what really took place in 2016 . So the party’s anti-Obama strategy has ended up working almost exactly as planned, except that none of the Republican elites who devised it, not even Vice President-elect Pence, envisioned that their new leader would rise to power by attacking Republican elites as well as the Democratic president. President-elect Trump was really the ultimate anti-Obama, not only channeling but embodying their anti-Obama playbook so convincingly that he managed to seize the Republican Party from loyal Republicans. And in the process, he has empowered an angry slice of the GOP base that has even some GOP incumbents worried about the forces they helped unleash. (2.1)>>Tea Party created Donald Trump. This time they’re not trying to blow up the system or fight big government. They’re here to support President Trump, no matter that he’s the biggest big-government Republican of them all. And in 2018, they’re trying to get more Donald Trumps into office — from state-level races to the halls of Congress.   When Trump won the White House in 2016, many Tea Party activists were thrilled. Jenny Beth Martin, president of the Tea Party Patriots, wrote after the election in November, “Far from being dead, the tea party movement has much to celebrate and much to do. Our values prevailed in the 2016 general election.”  (3)>> Occupy Wall Street. The Occupy Movement did more in its short history to change the attitudes of working people than almost any other group before. Ten years ago, virtually no one in this country could easily explain the essential threat by the new economy to our democracy, but within a few months of the occupation Zuccotti Park, the majority of Americans knew they were the 99% and that their freedoms were being eroded by the 1%. The Occupy Movement should receive a Nobel Prize in Economics.On Thursday’s(Oct. 2011) Piers Morgan Tonight, Donald Trump revealed that representatives of Occupy Wall Street wanted to do an interview with him. Morgan, who won Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice in 2008, asked the real estate mogul what he thought of the movement. “I sort of think it’s cool,” Trump exclaimed. “There’s something I like about it.”Morgan mentioned his interview with Michael Moore and how the documentary filmmaker placed sole responsibility on Wall Street for the financial crisis.Trump disagreed with Moore’s assessment. “I sat next to Michael years ago — and I really liked him! I was with him, and he’s a whole different guy. But then I watched him on your show and asked, ‘Is that the same guy?'” Trump said. “A lot has to do with politics, a lot has to do with the president, a lot has to do with bad decisions that have been made. We’ll see what happens but it’s a mess. They’ve been there a long time, perhaps they shouldn’t be allowed to stay that long.”  (4)>>Occupy Wall Street no longer exists. In the overall scheme of things, the Occupiers were certainly on the right side. That said, the idea of the "99%" was and is flawed. There are plenty of people in the upper middle class, folks who, in income terms, are perhaps in the top 10 to 15 percent rather than the top 1 percent, who are every bit as opposed to the idea of democratic socialism and as callous in their views regarding poverty as folks in the proverbial 1% are.And, there are plenty of folks in the bottom half of the income scale whose views would become pretty conservative if they ever found themselves among the top 10 to 15 percent.At the end of the day, we are not going to free humanity of its collective limitations. What might be possible is the achievement of something akin to what one finds in Scandinavia, but even there democratic socialist norms have been under attack as populations in the developing world, previously consigned to a subsistence level existence, begin to claim their too small share of the fruits of industrialization. What we currently term "neo-liberalism" is the function not merely of entrenched power and capital, but also, crucially, of an inability and disinclination of people to embrace and act upon solidarity as an ideal.Still though, as a matter of basic principle, of basic social and economic morality, we are obligated to keep trying.