It's hard to take seriously someone who doesn't know the difference between you're and your. But anyway, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you were part of Occupy and not just an infiltrator.

Why did individuals join Occupy and then leave? It's not the movement's fault, because the movement is only a reflection of the individuals involved. Most people left Occupy, not because of ideological differences, but because of the physical difficulty of Occupying, along with the fact that winter came, and camps were destroyed.

If you don't know why the masses won't join, then YOU don't understand the media's all encompassing hold over the population, coupled with the deep narcissism, selfishness and triviality of the American people. They've been trained to be subservient, unthinking and uncritical since birth. They think of themselves as consumers, not citizens, as they've been trained.

During the American Revolution only one third of the populace were patriots, the rest were loyalists, and the revolutionary soldiers joined for a wage, not because of deeply held beliefs. Many of them were never paid what they were promised. The war was won because of a miracle: The French Fleet showed up on the coast of Yorktown, and the British surrendered. It doesn't take 99% to change the world, just enough blocking existing power structures and the rest, willing to go along with a new, more democratic system to create and pass laws, and control the unmanageable legal structures of banks and corporations, into something more manageable and less potentially harmful. But we have to create new democratic power structures, to replace the ones that are already failing. If we have created them, and they are in place and working, then people outside the movement will see and believe that there is an alternative to the current system.

In America, the right believe in white supremacy and authoritarianism within social Darwinism, and the left (if you can call it that) believe that you can have social justice within capitalism. Both views are laughable and contradictory. The rest of America doesn't have a political view, just wants to go to the mall. Put that together with the fact that many are scared to protest, the removal of the physical encampments, the lack of positive media, and that's why people are hostile to Occupy and aren't joining.

Obviously, OCCUPYING as a strategy isn't going to go work long term, because those in power will always resort to laws to quash physical protests, so the movement needs to morph into something different and relate its messages without relying on the msm. But none of that means it's failed or it's over - Just that it's evolving.

What Americans need is a way to step out of their false beliefs, their brainwashing, their Stockholm Syndrome, and start understanding that capitalism and a corporate run and controlled world isn't going to work for them, in the way people believed it would during the 20th century. A corporate run and controlled world will not lead to their prosperity, or their children's prosperity. The way the world operates now, humans are on a fast track to self destruction, while messing up the environment and polluting the planet, perhaps permanently. That kind of collective realization doesn't start and end with a protest, it starts with enlightening people, giving them the tools to think critically, then challenging the propaganda that is foisted on everyone through the education system, the media and our consumerist and corporate culture.

The internet is the key to all of this. Occupy needs to morph into a network of multiple ways people can gain independence from being a corporate wage slave, and that includes a knowledge base and means to connect within their own community. That, along with harnessing social media and spreading various messages through film, art, writing, and culture, is the way to move Occupy forward.