When Megan McArdle asks “What’s Wrong With Oakland”, she assumes that there is nothing wrong with the OWS protesters in Oakland. The fact is, the Oakland variant is more hard-core and potentially violent than the OWS protester you will find in most other cities, because Oakland has been at this violent revolution stuff since the 1960s.
Most other parts of the country got past that stage. The East Bay... not so much...
keep the masses angry.point the finger and get rich