I just heard that the CPUSA and the American Nazi Party have endorsed the OWS movement. The Dems are going to pay a heavy price, next November, at the polls for their support and their embracing of OWS.
I hope and believe that's true, but I have a smidgeon of doubt. When I was growing up, and we were having nuclear war drills hiding under our schooldesks, the CP was complete anathema. Anyone joining it in the US was looked on as a near-traitor, and at the least a social misfit.
Now that the worldwide unity of Communism is less obvious in the post-USSR era, the notion of Communism doesn't have cause such immediate revulsion in the populace at large, especially the young, because they don't really know it. The unknown often has a certain romanticism to it.
Some portion of the protestor's gripes even seem reasonable. I walked by a sign that said "Personalized gains, socialized losses." Well, I couldn't agree more, but I'm sure I take a different message from it than the signbearer. He wants the government to socialize the profits; I want them to let the losses of the banks or GM be personalized according to the business law of priority.
There are daily polls claiming that the OWS is gaining support and traction--but no one talks about the unholy alliance that is supporting and organizing them. Even if they do, the MSM tries to sound balanced by saying something along the lines of how money from the Koch brothers probably went into the Tea Party.
People vote on emotion, and to some extent what they think they have as information. Garbage in, garbage out. So, the price they pay at the polls may not be as heavy as I would hope.