Talking Points Memo today linked to a couple demographic surveys of Occupy Wall Street participants. A close reading will have to wait. But here’s something that jives with what Peter Frase argued the other day — there’s a conflation of “partisanship” with “political ideology” among both elites and our fellow protesters.

One survey was posted to the OWS website yesterday. It introduces the findings of Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán, a CUNY sociologist who the site’s operators asked to analyze a poll of its visitors.

Among the most telling of his findings is that 70.3% of respondents identified as politically independent.

Dr. Cordero-Guzmán’s findings strongly reinforce what we’ve known all along: Occupy Wall Street is a post-political movement representing something far greater than failed party politics. We are a movement of people empowerment, a collective realization that we ourselves have the power to create change from the bottom-up, because we don’t need Wall Street and we don’t need politicians.