The beauty of the leaderless, party-less #OWS movement is that it indeed has no real leadership (so it can't be demonized) and no single political platform (so it can't be torn apart piece by piece). The temptation to politicize #OWS is tremendous, but politics eventually calls for the development of policy. Same root word, and at this point, the movement would do well not to embrace any party. George Lakoff put it well:
A Moral Focus for Occupy Wall Street
I think it is a good thing that the occupation movement is not making specific policy demands. If it did, the movement would become about those demands. If the demands were not met, the movement would be seen as having failed.
It seems to me that the OWS movement is moral in nature, that occupiers want the country to change its moral focus. It is easy to find useful policies; hundreds have been suggested. It is harder to find a moral focus and stick to it. If the movement is to frame itself, it should be on the basis of its moral focus, not a particular agenda or list of policy demands. If the moral focus of America changes, new people will be elected and the policies will follow. Without a change of moral focus, the conservative worldview that has brought us to the present disastrous and dangerous moment will continue to prevail.
However, there is nothing to stop us from attaching the GOP to the 1%, which is by no means a stretch. In reality, the GOP is the political wing of the 1% and they have been bought to fill that role. If that's the case, then let's call a spade a spade and go for it.
If we're going to attach a political party to this movement, let's attach the GOP to it and glue them to the corrupt forces that brought the country to it's knees. Let's keep the Dems out it it.
Thoughts?