It happened, OWS has been derailed.

The tea party movement started off as grass roots with specific rational objectives in mind and was later swamped by rightists and now OWS has been swamped with foaming at the mouth leftists bringing their own brands of racism, religious intolerance and illogical short sighted economic policies.

The elite pulled their strings and sent forth their battalions of ideological zealots to tard up another threat to the status quo, as you can see here the zealots have mixed in some very bad ideas in with the original acceptable ideas to discredit them, no logical educated voter can take this movement seriously now.

http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-ows-demands/

Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Unionize ALL workers immediately.

Raise the minimum wage immediately to $18/hr. Create a maximum wage of $90/hr to eliminate inequality.

Institute a 6 hour workday, and 6 weeks of paid vacation.

Institute a moratorium on all foreclosures and layoffs immediately.

Repeal racist and xenophobic English-only laws.

Open the borders to all immigrants, legal or illegal. Offer immediate, unconditional amnesty, to all undocumented residents of the US.

Create a single-payer, universal health care system.

Pass stricter campaign finance reform laws. Ban all private donations. All campaigns will receive equal funding, provided by the taxpayers.

Institute a negative income tax, and tax the very rich at rates up to 90%.

Pass far stricter environmental protection and animal rights laws.

Allow workers to elect their supervisors.

Lower the retirement age to 55. Increase Social Security benefits.

Create a 5% annual wealth tax for the very rich.

Ban the private ownership of land.

Make homeschooling illegal. Religious fanatics use it to feed their children propaganda.

Reduce the age of majority to 16.

Abolish the death penalty and life in prison. We call for the immediate release of all death row inmates from death row and transferred to regular prisons.

Release all political prisoners immediately.

Immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Abolish the debt limit.

Ban private gun ownership.

Strengthen the separation of church and state.

Immediate debt forgiveness for all.

End the 'War on Drugs'.

I don't agree with all the ideas I've highlighted, I can just accept that they are within reason and would not jeopardize the movement, the rest are frankly batshit insane, it is obvious they have been injected into the movement by fringe groups.

I think we all know that OWS has always had large swathes of people involved who have a burning hatred for anyone capable of achieving something in their lives. I could easily pick apart every bat shit crazy point on that list but one really does stand out:

>Institute a negative income tax, and tax the very rich at rates up to 90%.
If you want to tax people so ridiculously high, so that they have less the harder they work, what incentive is there to do any work at all? I mean, if you know that 90% of your product was taken away from you and given to people never really educated themselves or worked hard in their lives, why would you work at all? You wouldn't, you'd quit your job, dissolve all your assets (most of which would probably be seized for the "greater good") and go abroad. And anyone with a brilliant, creative idea for a new business would just think "What's the point?" because they'd never really profit more than they would if they kept their burger flipping job and they'd have to deal with the stigma of being someone's employer/evil overlord.

Don't they people think any of this through? Live would be fucking awful.