Does anyone else find it odd that the people orchestrating the breakup of the Occupy camps are Dems?

[Stinky The Clown]

Near as I can tell, the big city mayors ordering the shut downs are Democrats.

Who's behind that? Coincidence?

Kinda bullshitty if you ask me.

[hobbit709]

1. I don't find anything odd any more.

My view of the possible is enlarged every day.

[Tatiana]

2. Anyone else find it odd that the biggest attacks on teachers and their unions are coming from Dems?

It really isn't odd once you consider the possibility that those Dems don't really embody or subscribe to the set of principles and ideas of a traditional, Roosevelt/Truman style Democrat.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Ayup

Wars, too.

Corporate bailouts that fleece the little guys, too.

What else? The list is long.

Clean coal?

Fracking?

[a simple pattern]

21. Deep water drilling, oil pipelines...

assassinations, drone attacks, cuts to Social Security...

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Some are republican

<------- Points at mine.

No, this is the system reacting against a very real threat to it.

Just like OWS...this is non-party specific.

The best part, they ignored it when it started. I suspect it would be gone. But predictably power did what power does.

[bbgrunt]

4. anyone find it odd that the dem justice dept is cracking

down on mmj with a vengeance?

[Juneboarder]

6. My "local occupy"

Occupy Oceanside - Started by an aide to a Democratic Deputy Mayor; advertises MoveOn.org on their Facebook and GA. Seems fishy to me.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. And was promptly fired.

[mmonk]

7. It's both parties as far as mayorial attempts to shut down protests.

It's all so messy as far as both parties are concerned, especially with more cuts coming in their implementation of austerity and rightwing economic "solutions".

[FarCenter]

9. It's sort of odd that Occupy camps are in big city centers

For the most part, the centers of big cities are no longer productive areas. Big cities are mostly centers for politics, entertainment, cultural institutions, sports arenas, casinos, restaurants, etc. Big cities are centers of consumption, either occasional consumption by suburbanites and tourists, or consumption of social services by low income residents.

Manufacturing, warehousing, retailing, and most service industries have moved out of city centers. There are bank and insurance office buildings in some, but they are usually old ones, and the firm's data centers and major operations centers are in suburban and rural locations.

Even the Wall Street area is greatly diminished compared to what it once was. Trading is electronic and distributed. Very little of the actual trading is done on the NYSE and CME trading floors that you see on CNBC (although they look good as video sets).

[Roselma]

10. except for Bloomberg (NYC)...and he's at the

epicenter

[Huey P. Long]

11. Might I offer the observation that it is BECAUSE the 'Dems' are

against most traditionally Democratic things the party used to be for, is why OWS is even in existence.

See how most Dems in 'power' then want to neuter, or kill it is no surprise.

[Lionessa]

13. Pretty much. If enough Dems hadn't gone BlueDog, if the Senate Dems had supported

Nancy's reign at the House, if the President didn't give away the farm before the negotiations even started, if he wasn't unilaterally killing foreign and citizen targets and advancing our global policing project... yep, if Dems had just been Dems, they'd still have the house, and OWS wouldn't be happening.

[RagAss]

12. They're all bought with the same corporate dollars.

[Raster]

14. There may be the appearance of two political parties in Washington,...

...but they both feed from the same trough, and by the same hand.

[OhioChick]

20. They sure as hell do! n/t

[bigtree]

15. aren't most of these big city mayors Dems?

[waddirum]

23. Blomberg ran as a Republican

nt

[sabrina 1]

24. Bloomberg has been a Democrat, a Republican and an Independent.

I believe he is now calling himself and Independent. He is the epitome of the problems that need to be fixed.

[markpkessinger]

31. He's a corporatist. The particular flavor doesn't really matter. n/;t

[Jim Lane]

32. Bingo! It's not as if a whole bunch of Republican mayors have been more enlightened.

Most big-city mayors are indeed Democrats. The most prominent exception is Bloomberg, who has been markedly hostile to OWS.

Objectively, there is a clear difference between Occupy and the Tea Party rallies. The tactical choice of protracted occupation (as opposed to a single-day rally) inherently creates problems for a municipal government. That doesn't mean that the only way to address the problems is to send in the cops. What it does mean that mayors who had no ideological commitment to defending the 1%, but who merely wanted to administer their cities fairly and efficiently, have to consider how to deal with a prolonged camp-out. Most of the mayors facing that issue are Democrats.

Suppose that, after the 2008 election, thousands of birthers around the country had started an #Occupy movement, taking over parks and other open spaces and vowing to remain until the Kenyan usurper were removed from the White House, preferably in handcuffs. In that case, DUers would have no trouble seeing the appropriateness of some restriction. People would be posting links to court decisions holding that the First Amendment permits reasonable restrictions on the time, place, and manner of speech. There would be much more attention being paid here to such issues as the impact on neighborhood residents and the exclusion from the park of people who wanted to use it for normal park purposes.

Mayors have to consider the opportunity for the public to voice grievances, but they also have to consider other issues.

[glinda]

16. We must replace a few.

[TheMadMonk]

17. There is no Left in politics. Start with that premise and everything makes sense. /nt

[cyglet]

22. This.

Far right and center right only.

[mike_c]

18. both parties represent the 1%'s interests first and foremost....

Dems no less than republicans.

[libertypirate]

19. Me thinks it's hard to get what you want when you force the other side

to set it up for you. History does repeat itself. How that exactly happens with a push or by accident who knows. If done correctly no will ever know.

Bush proved one political reality you can get a lot and I mean a lot of what you want by fucking it up first.

[PufPuf23]

25. Bull shitty to me too about the crack down in Democratic cities.

You seldom fail to ask good questions Stinky the Clown. Salut.

[kenny blankenship]

26. Nope. Not surprised at all.

[Occulus]

27. Par for the course at this point

[Blasphemer]

28. Fully expected

It'd probably be different if there was a GOP President. It's one thing if the grievances can be laid squarely at the feet of the "other party" but when their own party (and therefore they themselves are as well) is implicated, it's a different story entirely. It jives with the difference at DU circa 2001-2007 and 2008 to present. There is establishment and there is anti-establishment. Party lines blur when the established order is threatened.

[JoeyT]

29. I think it's both bullshitty and coincidence.

It might be explained by the towns most likely to have people willing to go out en mass for prolonged protests against economic injustice are probably going to be less likely to elect Republicans. It's still bullshit, though.

[Capitalocracy]

30. Should I find that odd?

:shrug:

[Scuba]

33. DINO's have infiltrated the party at every level. Every level. n/t