25-11-2011, 06:24 PM
I'm sure they will try and already ARE trying, but I doubt it will work. The OWS crowd [vast majority of them] think almost as little of the Democrats as the Republicans. They are mostly not focused upon parties nor candidates - not on electoral politics as played - they know it is corrupt and rigged. Perhaps later they will come up with an Occupy The Nation Party, but for now they are focused on issues and in creating an entirely new paradigm of society, polity and civility [perhaps even civilization].
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass