Young bearded writer Alex Pareene answers the question I'd been idly asking my T.V.: who really was at those tax day protests? Turns out? Everyone!
If you throw an anti-war rally, only people who don't want there to be a war will show up. But if you just throw a "shit sucks" protest, everyone has a reason to attend! An anti-taxes, anti-Democrats, anti-Obama, anti-government, anti-Wall Street protest means, hey, somebody around here must be against something you're against.
"Young bearded writer" - Oh Choire, you are a sly little fox.
[...] over those long three decades, we have watched as the bottom classes found one devil or another to complain about, even as so many of our less well-off fellow citizens turned ever more to traditional pursuits of [...]
[...] over those long three decades, we have watched as the bottom classes found one devil or another to complain about, even as so many of our less well-off fellow citizens turned ever more to traditional pursuits of [...]