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Occupy was smothered from within via the use of ops, change my mind. It was one of the very few popular movements that got really close to the true crux of the issues in society, and right after it failed we got inundated with extremist identity politics tearing a potential class struggle apart.
Occupy fizzled due to it's own structure. It was a truly grassroots movement, not centered around any single leader or leadership structure. This ended up being the biggest issue that caused the movement to end. With no central structure, there was no central message. The media had no one specific to talk to, so they were free to talk to whomever they wanted, regardless of how well that person was able to articulate the message. With no well articulated message, people who weren't already playing close attention had no idea what the occupy movement was about, and they ignored it in droves.
Occupy didn't really have defined goals. It had a loose coalition of people who were upset about similar things but didn't really agree on what needed to be done to fix it.