The 99% is not valid percentage to be using...

[Jamastiene]

80. It is about wealth and power, not political parties or leanings.

You are making a good point about getting people to agree to one thing and about the 99% breaking down into all sorts of political leanings, but that is not what the 1%/99% thing is about. It is about the fact that 1% owns so much while 99% owns so little and has so little coupled with the fact that wealth equal power to change things while poverty equals no power at all.

You are correct about people who vote against their own best interests being a part of that 99%, but they are still part of the 99% because even many of them do not own a pot to piss in, much less have the power to change that fact, no matter who they vote for. Never forget that for many of us in the Bible Belt/southeast, the most liberal Democrat many of us can find is the one who doesn't openly agree with the Republicans on trying to enact laws that specifically attack the GLBT community, women, persons of color, and that is only if we are lucky. Usually, later we find out they do hate us just the same as the Republicans, because they vote right along with them on outrageous laws against us.

So, while you are right that 99% of America isn't going to agree with each other politically, it doesn't change the fact that 1% owns so much and has so much power while the other 99% owns so little and has no power to change things. The percentages are about wealth, not political parties. There are 1%ers who are Democrats as well. It still doesn't change how wealth=power and poverty=no power. THAT is what the percentages are about.