occupiers and tea partiers

what i hope for 'occupy wall street' is that it doesn't have the same fate as the tea party. i believe that the tea party was a more or less spontaneous upwelling of anti-gov/anti-wall street populism, but that it was hijacked by the right wing of the republican party (cf dick armey). it ended up with 'leaders' like palin or bachmann etc., partly because of their opportunism, partly because the media can't cover anything without leaders and spokesmen, or anything that doesn't fit their little left/right template (they're going to go back to the studio and have donna brazile and alex catellanos comment from the left/dem-right/rep standpoints (just as if political consultants had standpoints)). and it got infiltrated by republican-style greedisgood corporatism. now i wouldn't see that as the potential problem with occupy. but they need to resist annexation by the left wing of the democratic party, the union movement, etc, with their rah-rah for ever-more state authority.