When I was in high school in the 70's, a popular English literature teacher announced that he would be retiring the next year. The students immediately launched a sit in as a protest. The idea of protesting someone's retirement is about poor an excuse for public demonstration as I can imagine. But if you ask me, they could be forgiven that sort of idiocy because they were just kids. And in the post Vietnam war era, we were all being taught that public demonstration was the only way to get anything from the political system.
The truth is, most of us would have happily protested a rainy day if it meant that we could get out of our first period calculus quiz. The protest itself was the end product, not a means to achieve some other end. In fact, my age group was most markedly known for their complete and total apathy when it came to social issues. After a decade of watching one leftist failure after another culminating in the Carter malaise, we mostly just wanted the government to mind it's own business and leave us alone. But we were always up for a sit-in; especially during a school day.
This occupy Wall Street protest is obviously the same thing; a demonstration for it's own sake. Charlie Cooke makes this point most eloquently in the corner today, but stops short of calling this what it is. This is what happens when you give liberals everything they want and it fails to achieve any of their goals.... again. This is what it looks like when a movement begins to lose the last of it's popular appeal. When all that's left at the public protest are the professional grievance mongers and the 'off their meds' street people, the great public upheaval has heaved it's last.
You won't read this in the major media, but to me this looks very much like the last gasp of the current bout of leftism, made fashionable by Obama et al. It's no longer hip to believe in Keynesian controls and bailouts/"public private partnerships" or 'green jobs'. And thinking Obama will calm the waters and save the glaciers is now seen as silly.
This is what the 2010 election looks like, when applied to public demonstration. The left's social appeal is on empty. But for paid union thugs, the movement is done. There is nothing left now but to nail the lid shut, spread the garlic and holy water around and pray that leftism doesn't return from the dead again, any time too soon.
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The death of the left will be brought on by the fact that they ran out of other people's money (hat-tip to M. Thatcher).
They won't go quietly though. There is a very large segment of our population that depends on handouts or govt. jobs to maintain the pretense of a middle class existence or simple survival. Coupled with a sense of entitlement and you have a recipe for violence once the checks stop coming and the EBT cards no longer work.
Stock up on ammo...
Protesting involves work, and the last thing those parasites want to do is work.
There wont be any upheaval, and no need for ammo. Just a lot of individually angry people, hanging out in the 7-11 [parking lot, and loudly complaining that they are no longer getting their disability checks or whatever.
You won't get Maxine Waters to give up on socialism until the money runs out,. but no one will be listening to her.
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