> Anti-globalization as a movement completely collapsed during the Occupy Wall Street protests.
Not quite. Anti-globalization as a movement completely collapsed during the Obama administration and it's more accurate to call those protests the dying gasp.
The blame for taking the momentum away from the anticorporate left has to come most directly from the corporate and neoliberal left.
If you want to pick one thing to zero in on, as an example, pick the complete lack of consequences for the bankers and other architects of the great financial collapse, which was a direct decision by the Obama administration.
It's the direct antecedent of the culture of complete and total elite impunity that has poisoned American politics today.
> Anti-globalization as a movement completely collapsed during the Obama administration and it's more accurate to call those protests the dying gasp.
Occupy occurred in 2011; Obama was in office from 2009 to 2017. If anti-globalization sentiment had completely collapsed at some preceding point during the Obama years, there wouldn’t have been a dying breath.
> The blame for taking the momentum away from the anticorporate left has to come most directly from the corporate and neoliberal left.
Hence “realized that they could just pay off the OWS leadership with fake email jobs.” The neoliberals were openly in favor of globalization. People left of the neoliberals were nominally opposed to it up until they got paid off. This has shifted in recent years; most neoliberals are starting to realize they need to pump the breaks, whereas most left of them are saying things like “No one is illegal.”
I agree that impunity has its origins during the Obama era, but I’m not sure how much you can blame the administration for that. If financial crimes had occurred, they would have been handled by the judiciary, not the executive.
Not quite. Anti-globalization as a movement completely collapsed during the Obama administration and it's more accurate to call those protests the dying gasp.
The blame for taking the momentum away from the anticorporate left has to come most directly from the corporate and neoliberal left.
If you want to pick one thing to zero in on, as an example, pick the complete lack of consequences for the bankers and other architects of the great financial collapse, which was a direct decision by the Obama administration.
It's the direct antecedent of the culture of complete and total elite impunity that has poisoned American politics today.