Leftist protests are all about street theater and ‘artistic expression.’
These folks NEED their cute Che! t-shirts and V for Vendetta masks and music.
They seem to be overwhelmed by the idea that in the sixties, singing “All You Need Is Love” and shouting in the streets created social change—and was fun! Wheeee!
If these protests were only allowed if proof of being registered to vote were presented, they wouldn’t happen. Voting and the political process is all too heavy for them.
I’m a 63 year old Vietnam vet and I remember this radical street theater only too well. Why it’s back again must be due to the dirty foulmouthed radicals of the late sixties having long since become the tenured college faculty of today. They have successfully filled enough young skulls full of mush (El Rushbo’s term) with the same vitriolic hatred of the same free enterprise system that gave today’s same disaffected youts’ their privileged middle class lifestyle that has always been the envy of the world.
By the way, I rejoined the Army after Vietnam which gave me not only the privilege of retiring only this year at age 62 but getting deployed and not only serving alongside the very finest among our young people, but watching the welcome they get when they come back to “the world”. Quite a change from Vietnam days believe me.
Anyway, we should keep in mind that the OWS has class enemies which are far more numerous than “Wall Street bankers” (code for “Jew”) but includes us “bitter clingers” out here in flyover country.
Some of us “BC’ers” have been qualifying on the M-16 for forty years now, just sayin’.