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We could have 1M people living in the streets of the Capitol and the media would ignore it. If forced, they could and would frame the shots to show 10 bedraggled people and some signs that could be construed negatively against them.

However, I have thought for a long time that we need just that sort of demonstration: 1M people actually living out on the streets for as long as it takes. The Czechs and Poles, the Ukrainians and Georgians all did that. Some of these Velvet Revolutions worked better than others, of course and in the case of the Eastern Europeans, the unions were on the side of freedom.

In the early 1990s, during the Second Soviet Revolution. we had C-band sat TV. Back then, the network feeds were wild and we spent days watching Russian working men calmly building barricades with cars and walking around with squat bottles that used to contain vodka, filled with a yellowish fluid with rags stuffed in their necks. What struck me was how utterly business-like, organized and competent these men were. They knew what to do, how to do it and were working together calmly and efficiently. No matter when I watched this, I never saw a policeman or saw these men being stopped from any of what they were doing. I was proud of them for fighting tyranny. Of course, I had and have no idea of what was really happening as it was all silent footage. They could have been Gorby’s Goons, I just don’t know.

Most Americans haven’t yet suffered enough to just take to the streets. We are just now getting the structure together and we are middle class, so we do things differently. The left, when it does this, uses college age kids and then they attract all the other anarchists, other single-issue folks and paid NGO members. It turns into a party and most of them know of warm safe houses where they can take a break or a shower and sleep without fear. We have a lot of older and middle-aged folks, many with small children. It is still something our demographic will not do..............yet.