[CaptainCrunch]

Why is there no comparison between the Peace Movement and the Occupyers?

For all of their wanton laziness and lack of personal hygene (I joke) those hippies were organized, they had a specific mandate in mind and they understood completely what they were protesting. They galvanized and captured that entire generation and they focused on one real goal, and they could articulate it, and they had a reason to be angry. It was a movement that grew on the back of a simple message, the war in Vietnam is wrong, we're sending people over there against their will to fight an unjust war, get out of Vietnam now.

They didn't claim to represent 99%, they grew through college campuses and schools through actual intellectional roots, and they create a entire movement that resonated and grew and exploded and pressured and forced people to reflect and change.

The story that Bruce Springsteen tells about getting drafted and being at logger heads with his father about going to Vietnam is prime a prime example of how the Peace Movement in conjunction with media openess forced by the generation changed peoples perceptions.

The Peace Movement actually had a massive role in changing government policy.

The occupy movement is an unfocused group with no real mandate, no goals no vision, and they falsly claim to represent people that have no interest in being represented by them.

The Peace Movement was incredibly focused and while it was organic they all had the same goal in mind.