All meaningful protesting was extinguished during OWS and there hasn't been the ability to meaningfully protest in the US, since. Democracy in the US was already long in a death spiral, but this was the nail in the coffin.

I suspect this wasn't a coincidence, but the reaction by big corporate bankers needing to react.

Due to the needs of these corporations to silence the public's very serious accusations of systematic abuse, professional services sprang up providing processional services for protest busting, protest infiltration, paid violent counter-protesting, and protester stalking, identification, and targeting.

Absolutely nothing that Occupy Wall Street was protesting was improved in the slightest and everything has gotten much much worse. The same problems keep growing and repeating.

To insult us further, the history of what OWS was and was about, has been manipulated. Lately, they continue to spin it into a diluted unreachable modern Lib decoy fantasy, one that is a perpetually unsolvable conundrum, with no possible solution, such as ones meant to dupe new generations of college students into decades long support. Although OWS always was sprinkled with some of Bernie Sanders' ashes, it was made up of a more realistic and diverse perspective.

As I remember the main reasons I protested OWS (learning how dangerous, manipulated, and not worth-while traditional protesting was):

• The political bribery system of campaign donations.
• The corruption of our representative system through the need of political campaign to be focused on nothing but campaign money.
• Banks gambling with our money, then being bailed out with tax payer money when they had a big losing streak.
• Banks abusing customers with ATM fees, overdraft scams, and manipulated transaction orders to maximize fee-scams.
• Government spying, secret FISA courts, and law enforcement's spying with efforts to manipulate politics and political movements.
• Governments, banks, and corporations stealing, buying/selling, and monetizing our privacy.
• Reckless and profit-driven corporations profiting by the dangerous industrialization of food and every industry, resulting in the polluting, poisoning, and destroying the environment and public health. Worse, our government's history of covering for them, ensuring no liability. Topic of the times were oil spills, benzene in soda, forever chemicals, GMOs, RoundUp, hormones in industrial farming, etc.
• Endless wars, killing, torturing, overthrowing governments, and destroying democracy abroad.
• Similarly, continued colonialism.
• Rampart financial inequality. (Every time a liar uses the fake solution of "tax the rich", this gets worse, because the actual rich have no taxable income and the poor have their income tax mostly waved, so this just equates to endlessly increasing taxes on the middle class and wondering why the rich aren't impacted.)