All the answers provided so far are definitely contributing factors, and we should remember the closest you’ve gotten to actually doing this which was occupy wall street, I was actually reminded of this recently when I listened to an interview by film maker Adam Curtis and his rebuke of it and why he believes it didn’t go anywhere.
BTW, be prepared to dislike the interviewers (At least I couldn’t stand them), though its still provides Curtis with a good platform for going into some detail on what his work has been pointing to for some time.
