Do you want a president who fights like hell for the 99%?

[struggle4progress]

155. I was interested in Occupy! for a while in the Fall 2011 and made a limited effort

to put info into the DU2 state forums as you can check here -- most state forums there contain some posts of mine with Occupy! news, the volume depending on what news stories I could find

Unfortunately, Occupy! never developed a concrete agenda, never provided definite legislative or regulatory goals at state or federal levels, produced no useful research, had no usable analysis, and in the end never evolved into anything more than an expression of angst. It did not produce a self-critical movement able to try tactics for specific aims and able to study which tactics worked and why. It did not produce meaningful organization; it did not produce much phone-calling or door-knocking -- if any. The collapse of Occupy! as a movement was therefore predictable, and no one should adopt Occupy! as a model

Wanting "change" is not enough. One needs to specify exactly what change one wants, to find others who agree the change is necessary, and to persuade others to take definite steps for that change. On even simple issues, this can be a labor of a least a few years, and if one is working against organized opposition the task can be time- and energy-consuming