The protest movement that reframed radical inequality as a matter of 99 percent to 1 percent is not what it was this time last year.
When Occupy Wall Street rocked the nation and then the world in September 2011, few of us had ever seen anything like it. The majority of Americans openly sympathized with the protesters in the town square. We saw the stories of debt and struggle and financial vulnerability and said, “Yes, we are them, and they are us — and those people, standing right over there, are the problem.”
And that was powerful. And true. ...