On OWS and the Democratic Party

[atddoug]

95. Don't ask Dem leaders, trust the words of OWS - they hate Dems

I'm running a series of posts on this subject for Dems, OWS Is Not Our Ally. Dems are clinging to the hope that OWS will vote our way in November. Fact is, they have made it clear that they will NOT vote for Dems.

Just a few weeks ago, Occupy Los Angeles ran an article with these statements:

As they’ve done so many times in the past, on Tuesday 6 November 2012 American voters will go to the polls to decide absolutely nothing. At least not at the presidential level, where electing either corporate-controlled Democratic puppet Obama or corporate-controlled Republican puppet.

After two disastrous terms with Dubya, Obama was sold to the Sheeple as “Change” incarnate in 2008. But what really changed?

Clearly the Democrats and Republicans have the same core agenda and answer to the same global elite, so voting for the candidates of either merely perpetuates their “two-party tyranny”.

Don’t waste any more time or energy on the presidential election than it takes to get to your polling station and pull a lever for a third-party candidate – just enough to register your obstruction and defiance – and then get back out onto the street. That is where the question of real power is being decided.

And from Occupy Washington D.C.:

The Obama administration and the Democrats as well as the Republicans maintain the rule of Wall Street. Occupiers have organized an independent movement that challenges the rule of the 1% and their Republican and Democratic lackeys. Bought and paid for with millions of dollars from Wall Street, the health insurance industry and big energy interests, Obama and the Democrats are part of the problem, not the solution.

Comments I'm finding in blog after blog:

Democrats and the Republicans are 100% identical, absolutely no difference what so ever

Having attended the May Day rally in New York and been gratified that the liberal stench that clung to so many of the earlier OWS events seems to have dissipated

The Democrats are in for a rough ride.

OWS hates Democrats as much as Republicans hate Democrats. Its time for Dems to face the facts, stop kissing their asses, and focus on our supporters and those who can help us win in November.