When the Occupy Chicago and Occupy Cleveland arrests happened this weekend, it dawned on me that these raids and arrests were being ordered by Democrat mayors, by mayors of the party who are supposed to be representing the 99%. After watching 10 Occupiers in Cleveland on Livestream being literally dragged into paddywagons as other protesters sang protest songs, just 40 miles away from me, well, it game me chills. It was hard to watch. Democrat mayor Frank Jackson caved in to demands from a downtown business group to clear the protesters from Public Square.
The picture of those nurses sitting down in front of the first aid tent at Occupy Chicago is etched in my mind too, and as we know Rahm Emmanuel is the mayor of that city. I've been thinking about it the past few days, so I wrote this letter, but I'm not sure who I should send it to.
Now I'm not advocating for anyone to abandon the Democrats, but I think it's time to give them a strong reminder of who they are supposed to be supporting, that we are the 99%, and that may Occupy supporters are Democrats.