Occupy Wall Street defined Working Class Line of March : We r the 99% ! Occupy Wall Street defined Working Class Line of March : We r the 99% !

2016 : With deciding whether to support Dems, history and facts are key. Since FDR's DP, the Democratic Party has been a grounds of class struggle. Pro-Working class reform influence dominated in FDR years . The bourgeoisie struck back dominating with Truman. LBJ administration was another peak of wc reform. Democrat Clinton adminustrstion had bourgeois crack back. Now Obama has _started_, not peaked , another rise of working class influence. Also, Eisenhower was not , on balance ,anti-wc. The working class rise from the thirties on domestic issues was still strong in the fifties . Truman's anti-wc actions were against Communist countries and the Communist Party. The Republican Congress passed Taft-Hartley (though some Drmocratic votes in Congress overthrew the veto).

This outline history shows that working class movement mass protest and lobbying can take over the DP. The main working class mass protests that are influencing the DP in this period are Occupy Wall Street and the Latina/o immigration reform marches of five years ago or so. Occupy consciously represented the working class IN THE CLASS STRUGGLE with its "We are the 99% vs the 1%. " Can't think of a more perfect Marxist slogan than that ( despite the fact that Marxists define class based on relationship to the means of production not income ). I basically consider Occupy a spontaneous creation of a temporary Working Class Party in convention nationally for eight months. It definitely impacted the 2012 Presidential election; no "We are the 99% ", no " Romney's 47% gaffe". The 99% /1% is still part of the current events media framework. The class issue has been tattooed onto mass political discussion . Bernie is clearly the Presidential candidate from Occupy Wall Street with his emphasis on criticizing Wall Street and raising significant reforms for the 99%.