That's beside the point. Americans will ignore and belittle OWS! because of its optics, the way it looked--which was sordid and a little ridiculous--but the OWS critique of the high levels of inequality in the USA. and of the culpability of both parties, was solid, and remains so. 

Very little has happened to change this because to change it would be to challenge the power of wealth in an unbearably direct way.