"If they were ever stuck living under the same conditions"
They wouldn't protest, they would do what most people of means who are not "stuck" do and leave, taking assets and knowledge with them. Remember the Hollywood clowns like Streisand who promised to leave America if Bush were re-elected in '04? See any for sale signs on those houses?
Reminds me of Jefferson Starship/Airplane singing hosannas to a Maoist revolution, which had it taken power would have shot them first.
I agree, most of these protesters would be the first ones lined up for the firing squads, standing side by side with all the ACLU idiots and most of the lawyers.
Is that the one where they sing about "got to revolution now"? That was one godawful album. Their first album with Grace Slick (Surrealistic Pillow) was their best and one of the best rock albums ever. They slid rapidly downhill after that. The more political they got, the worse their music got. At that time I was Democrat, and even I thought it was a bunch of crazy Marxist garbage.