answer:Constructive. But not well organized. I see the OWS group as a parallel grass-roots group to what the Tea Party was doing at the time. However, the Tea Party folks had gotten their shit together. The had organized, planned, had real goals in mind, had a mechanism to reach them. They had a strategy and focus to what they were doing. OWS had essentially no governance – it was almost anarchical. No unifying vision, no articulated goals, no methodology. It was a popular (and populist) movement that had no plan. So it failed. It’s too bad. OWS reflected my views and political leanings, but they screwed it up for lack of leadership and achievable goals. So if there is a lesson to be learned, it is that if you’re going to start a social movement, you need to be organized. You need to know what you want to accomplish, and some idea of how. You have to articulate the message in a way people can understand. And that takes planning and thought.