movements like BLM and OWS were ineffective because they were manufactured by political action groups not to improve the lives of people but to demonize but to

movements like BLM and OWS were ineffective because they were manufactured by political action groups not to improve the lives of people but to demonize but to distract from the fact that government itself was the problem. So instead on allowing the focus to be about mismanagement at levels from city, state, to federal, the politically adept turned the focus to divide people based on economic, gender, or racial lines. It is classic American politics, hence why the groups never gained traction because they weren't from the ground up. It took over a decade for the Republican party to stomp on and co-opt the tea party and the outrage at the time when it surfaced was because it was not under control of either party. American's protest problem is simple, life is too easy to have anything generate enough interest for people to assemble about other than bad government and the political parties have figured out how to effectively redirect that ire.