One commenter was talking about how, when he was protestor in the 1960s, it was cheap. My experience with working people is that it is very, VERY expensive.

Your Mommy Professor acolyte of the 1960s had no family to support.

Another things is what I call the quantity discount for the activist industry. If you go to a LOT of demonstrations, you can grab a car pool or a van.

And, again, you don’t have to leave a job, a real job, to just up and go.

BoardAd told me that the OWS started with a protest on student loans, but bloggers now write that half of the protesters are middle aged. What kind of middle-aged people can pull up stakes and spend weeks in a march?

No, memories of the hippy days won’t do. Anybody who has ever organized any of these things knows that the only reason for a flash crowd like this is that tens of thousands of middle-aged adults had resources and personnel they needed to use, whatever the excuse.

Not only is this important, but you simply can’t understand how the real world works without this kind of insight. When someone suddenly spends hundreds of millions of dollars on something, you need to look at where those millions and those tens of thousands in the street CAME from.

Let me remind, you do not hear one single word on this point from ANY media source. You do not hear it even from pro-whites except right here on BUGS.