By now I hope that everyone realizes that  the main reason that the good people at Occupy Wall Street are out in the streets protesting is because they, as members of the bottom 98% couldn't get their issues addressed by the "two" party governmental duopoly in Washington!  Both parties are still deeply engaged in their usual game of good cop/bad cop.  That game has a few simple rules that effectively takes government out of the hands of we, the people and hands it over to Wall Street, Corporations and the rich.

Here are the rules to two party good cop/bad cop (a.k.a. Two Party Flim Flam) 
as played by the Democratic and Republican parties.

• The Democrats make soaring populist campaign promises, evoking images of FDR AND JFK.  
  
• When or if they get elected, they make an attempt to fulfill those promises.
  
• If they have a majority, they don't force the issue, but try to seek a "bipartisan" solution.
  
• The Republicans have their own agenda which includes wiping out all the social programs that the Democrats have put in place since FDR, so they stonewall any Democratic legislation!
  
• The Democrats, being the good cops, compromise with the bad, bad Republicans and cut back on delivering their campaign promises.
  
• Since they really want to show the Republicans what nice people they are, they offer up bits of their earlier social safety net programs for sacrifice on the altar of corporate greed.
  
• If we, as the Progressives who were their strongest supporters, ask the Democrats why they caved and abandoned their campaign promises, they will say that it was because of those big bad obstructionist Republicans causing gridlock.
  
• They will then take it a step further and act as if WE are their opposition!
  

That's the way the game is played in Washington these days.  One side tries to shaft the bottom 98% and the other side tacitly cooperates.  Let me remind you that the same  corporate lobbyists visit the electeds of both parties!  The people at Occupy Wall Street have decided to ignore the politically motivated, corporate owned middlemen and bring their case directly to we the people!  I want to thank them for being the last glimmer of hope for true democracy in America!