Charles Pierce: What Began at Occupy Wall Street Is Reverberating in Today's Democratic Primary
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/36561-focus-what-began-at-occupy-wall-street-is-reverberating-in-todays-democratic-primaryAnyway, these elections represent the first serious stirrings at the ballot box of the efforts to reform the Democratic Party that began outside the party structure, in Zuccotti Park and in the streets of Ferguson and Baltimore, and that provided the energy to campaigns like the one that put Warren in the Senate and the one that Sanders has kept rolling throughout the spring. This is not simply the Democratic Party demonstrating its admirably diverse inability to get out of its own way. There is power behind what's happening here; neither as formidable as it may become, nor particularly well-focused, this power is nonetheless real and its issues and concerns must be addressed. The party must have room for Donna Edwards, Joe Sestak, and John Fetterman, and for their constituents and supporters. Otherwise, a very big opportunity already is lost.
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was a gleam in anyone's eye.
OWS, however, did bring those things to the forefront in a way that Sen. Sanders could not while in the House or Senate because corrupt corporate media ignores liberals as much as it possibly can. Corrupt, corporate media did the same thing to OWS as it did to Sanders' candidacy for the nomination for POTUS: media ignored OWS as long as it possibly could, then gave it a second's acknowledgement before trying to tear it down. Bernie's candidacy is bringing those things to the forefront again, too. I cannot express how happy I am about that.
I will, however, again credit Boston OWS for putting the term "99%" back into the national conversation. It's from Orwell, the prescient, anti-Communist author of 1984 (written in 1948) and a Democratic Socialist, like Senator Sanders.
To Orwell, Sanders, OWS and Democratic Socialists 