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If you look at the crowds (say over the past couple of years), it falls into three categories. First, there’s the feminist or BLM groups. Second, there’s the hired folks who saw some ad on a Craiglist page and will get $75 cash to just show up and carry a sign. Third, there’s the college kid group who get talked into this by some agenda recruitment thug at the college.

Most working class people don’t have the time to take off and do something like these protests. I went to the DC anti-Wall Street tent episode in 2010 to examine the two groups. The news media could never explain why there were two totally separate anti-Wall Street encampments existing in DC...roughly a mile apart.

So, you walk around and find group one is mostly an odd combination of college kids from the local region who were recruited by someone for an agenda, and out-of-work guys who had a drug habit. This camp was full of rats, very unsanitary, and was fast becoming a problem for local businesses because customers were refusing to enter the district. Note, this camp was about 8 minutes walking north of the White House.

So, camp number two was ten minutes east of the White House. This was oddly run by folks over the age of forty. Their camp was clean, no rats, and orderly. They had peopled detailed to pick up trash, sweep up, and well-maintained. These were mostly long-term protesters who’d done protests for decades and basically were the type that would get a job for six months, and run off to some next protest. They’d return to their relative’s house, restart their coffee shop job or pizza job, and then a year later....go off to another long-term protest. They were leftovers of the 1960s.

Oddly, when I asked the older protest crowd why not merge the two groups together...they just laughed. The younger group as far as they were concerned....were unfocused, and unable to maintain order.