Occupy vs the Anti-Social Justice Movement

[Zorra]

7. Getting Dems elected is definitely a good thing.

I wholeheartedly support you in this, without reservation. I've campaigned for Dems several times in the past, and have voted straight Dem in every election since I was 18, and plan to do so once again this year.

Actually, more than once again, if they let me.

But it is true that almost every conservative despises Occupy. It's not really a black and white cartoon world.

Occupy has collaterally helped Obama and many Dems by putting the problem of the 1% in every living room. Last November's election is an example of this.

The Democratic Party has traditionally been the party of labor, of the people.

The GOP has traditionally been the party of the wealthy, and corporations.

Occupy is struggling against the control of the 1%, against the control corporations, on behalf of democracy and the people.

So, we Occupy Dems have had a real hard time understanding why any Democrat would so continually, adamantly, almost desperately, want us to fail and die, and would be so dead set against Occupy from the very beginning. This is the type behavior that we fully expected from the conservative posters of freerepublic, but not from posters on progressive message boards.

There's a big difference between offering reasonable criticisms of Occupy, or Democrats, and hating on Occupy, or Democrats, while consistently spouting BS RW memes these groups. When someone starts spreading BS RW memes about Democrats, most people's first thought is "RW Troll".

Makes a person go "WTF is this?", and justifiably so, IMO.