you're 'concerned' about flag burning -- this is what you should be 'concerned' about

[TheKentuckian]

37. I tend to think that in some quarters, once OWS didn't become the "Democrat's tea party"

it became a threat to be opposed, a joke to be mocked, or often both.

There also plenty of economic conservatives that at most want a little tinkering that see Occupy as too radical on its face that like picking at nits to negate traction and expansion of the sentiment or at least keep it from having a center. Conservative doesn't mean anti-government zealot or theocrat so the pro-government" party has been a natural home for folks of such a bent since the Republicans have become an out anti-government party.

There are plenty of self described "economic conservatives/social moderates" which seems to roughly translate to I'm not a fundy and I'm not a racist and even more "economic conservatives/social liberals" which means not only am I not a bigot, a fundy, I'm okay with gay people, and I might be open to not sending you to jail for smoking weed neither of which have any interest in anything like an anti-corporatist movement, are dubious of campaign finance reform by default, and are often devout believers in the basic structure of our economy and largely see themselves as above the fray of any downsides. They are certainly pleased with the Turd Way direction of the Democratic party and seem annoyed as hell by certain conversations that push for a different path.