I lived the movement back in the day, but was always annoyed at how they failed. They refused to name a concise list of demands. Whenever anyone would ask them what they wanted, from either side of the aisle, they would give a rambling incoherent complaint list, and it made all leaders tune out immediately.

Bothered the hell out of me because yes, it was a good movement, but you need to have one, maybe two obvious and easy to digest demands. If their demand was simply "no more corporate campaign contributions" or "pass harsher banking legislation" that is something politicians could have actually acted on.

Same thing with BLM at George Floyd. I knew it would fizzle, it was the same thing. I think BLM posted 15+ things they wanted done? There's no way our government would ever do 15 things at once. Choose one, rally behind it. If they had all clearly said "demilitarization of police" that actually could have happened. Politicians were sympathetic and open to doing something, and that could have been an easy win. But instead they got incoherent ramblings again.

I'm just frustrated. I hate the system we have, but we are forced into it so we have to understand how to make change. If your demands are nebulus a few don't really have a clear goal, then they are just going to wait out the protests until everyone goes home. If you all say "do this thing" then you might actually get something done.