OWS has meant just as much - if not more- than the teabagger movement to politics...

[JDPriestly]

55. The people who turn up at Democratic Club meetings are the same ones

who turned up pre-OWS. But the enthusiasm now is much greater in Democratic circles than it was post-Obama, 2010 and that is, in great part, due to OWS and to Madison, Wisconsin's union movement.

OWS has brought new life to the Democratic Party. Nobody talks about it directly, but it's there when you go to meetings. If OWS can do it, so can we who are active in the Democratic Party.

OWS changed attitudes. It really cheered a lot of us up. It has given us new hope after Obama's rather drab first two years. I think it has also given Obama a little boost. I say that because he is focusing much more on the injustice of economic inequality than he did even in 2008. He is still talking about bringing people together, but I think that OWS and other changes in the economy, etc. have made Obama more aware of the fact that you can't bring people together as long as one segment of them is bullying and oppressing the other. Can't be done. Obama did not seem to recognize that until this year.

So, I think OWS has made a big, big difference.