I know, I know Occupy is dead... right

[TheKentuckian]

313. How is supporting Democrats going to pull them to the left, when Democrats strategy is

to hold the left by fear of the right and then pursuing the soft right leaning voters?

The Tea party isn't a model because the dynamic is very, very different because the TeaPubliKlans are looking for any excuse to move right and hold the soft Democratic leaner's by fear of a fantasy left and attract the political will-o-the wind types with propaganda and misinformation.

There are no Democratic operatives, high level political leaders, and big money types trying to re-brand and increase the ideological zealotry of the party.
It is also impossible to miss that the push the TeaPubliKlans made to the right has wealthy folk that would benefit significantly but there are no profit centers that will benefit from (and so finance and use clout to forward) a push to the left.
There will be no former speakers armed with millions and a propaganda network to support Occupy or any other 99% oriented movement.

The parties are different, even in some very important aspects, but both are integrally connected to our systemic problems, bad trade policy, and the transfer of wealth to the top and there isn't enough room to address the issues, demand correction (particularly when correction means revolutionary or evolutionary change overthrowing or superseding establishment institutions), and embrace an existing party as a movement. The TeaPubliKlans would be more absurd by a good mile but that doesn't make it logically follow. Less bad and actually in any way constructive are not interchangeable concepts.