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In reply to the discussion: After Gore was cheated in 2000, we did nothing. [View all]zentrum
(9,865 posts)....after the financial melt down, for many months, and the media just wouldn't cover it.
If 12 Teabaggers staged a protest they were given full coverage. They finally became the Repug party itself because their ignorant message dovetailed with the money-elite.
But "Occupy" was largely ignored. It faded as the economy "recovered" (so-called). And only the most progressive Dems embraced their economic message in any serious way. Warren especially with legislation for consumer protections.
100's of thousands marched in the streets to object to the Iraq invasion. Then silence.
But, yes, building a truely organized movement takes lots of work and we've been shamefully passive.
However Stoneman students like David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez are terrific at true movment building.
I think the young are truly terrified and I have a lot of faith in them.