Keep in mind that "original list of demands" was one from a single sub-group within the Occupy Wall Street protests in a single city and that it did not circulate nationwide until after the cable news outlets got a hold of it
Occupy Wall Street got really big because it spread organically and was very decentralized. Most of the groups were Y2K Liberals, centrists/moderates, and your Ron Paul 2012 liberarians who did not like the corporate bailouts of Bush and Obama. Most of the far-leftists were hanger-ons in a few major cities when Occupy first got going. Then all of a sudden they completely took over the movement in the coastal cities.
Possibly, but at least Breonna Taylor is the one BLM martyr most normies can still feasibly have an ounce of actual sympathy for. Her boyfriend was a total scumbag through and through but at most, she was holding money for him and her past was nowhere near as checkered as Jacob Blake or George Floyd.
I think the hardcore Antifa and BLM will keep rioting and take that mile but the moderates and the normies can get the feeling that Taylor's family got some form of compensation and it can make the BLM crowd look even more unhinged.
Trump does not have it in the bag, but thanks to Biden/Harris being such a god-awful ticket, he actually has a chance of winning. The chaos can help him, although I fully expect the Democrats to pull every dirty trick in the book to get Biden to win.
Nah, if anything I think the Right is more unified than the Left because they all kind of realize the threat the Woke Left poses to their very lives in many cases.
The only thing keeping the Right's main opposition (the Woke Left, the DNC, corporate bigwigs) together is Orange Man Bad and that's a less motivating factor than trying to keep yourself from getting unpersoned, imprisoned, or killed.
This is all hinging on the election and if the DHS and DOJ actions against Antifa have shown, the Feds are not entirely compromised even if the FBI is still going on about some vague Nazi incel straw boogeyman.
Really, I think there was a more solid left-wing coalition at the start of this in late May and June but it started to crumble slowly after the 4th of July weekend and by August it was completely out of control.
BLM and Antifa are trying to do a color revolution or at least kick off the sequel to the American Civil War that nobody asked for.
The more common hood rats/joggers wanted an excuse to loot and riot and they've more or less gotten all they need, Aside from Louisville and a few other hot spts, most of the common joggers aren't hanging with BLM en masse since they've got what they wanted. Portland and Seattle are the two whitest major cities in the country, despite having the most persistent and violent riots.
The DNC and the corporate bigwigs wanted the riots as a way to help bring down Trump and make a Biden win much easier for them since COVID-19 gave them a golden opportunity to beat the Orange Man thanks to the lockdowns tanking the economy. Tellingly, most of the corporate endorsement was at the start of it and it was all simultaneous. I think it was because the neolibs all thought this shit would burn itself out within a month or at least after the first week of July and that Trump would either fuck up by using the Insurrection Act right off the bat and the MSM would take advantage of the optics goldmine.
A lot of the stuff from mid-late June kinda implicated that the 4th of July would be the climax of the madness and you even had crazy shit like that Gettysburg attack rumor, which turned out to be a complete nothingburger. The DNC and the bigwigs that fund them probably did not expect this to get as out of hand as it was. Turns out BLM and Antifa are a lot harder to fully co-opt than Occupy was.
I've seen better coordination and organized efforts in a Ritz Brothers film