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In reply to the discussion: Do you understand why Occupy was infiltrated and broken up? [View all]whoiswithme
(35 posts)I for one am happy to have seen the occupy movement start and make it's run. I think it's sad that it didn't succeed.
The biggest reason for this is that the movement scared people. It has a socialist side that scared republicans and a tea party side (limited government) that scared democrats. I think that had the movement focused on what I think were it's true ideals (limited government, decrease in corruption) and then effectively communicated them, it would have gotten a lot of support across the political spectrum. I think there are a lot of true conservatives and true liberals that can actually agree on a lot of things (note that I used the term conservative and liberal, not democrat and republican). I think that most of us are upset about the things our government is doing and want to have more personal freedoms, or at least not to lose the ones we have.