Occupy Wall Street did, however, raise one important issue: that of higher education and its role in increasing tuition and little commensurate education. So much of the angst in video clips and op-eds was voiced by a youthful upper middle class who went to the university, majored either in social science or liberal arts, piled up debt, faced almost no employment choices commensurate with their class and their educational brand — and thus were furious at the more profit-minded members of a like class for abandoning them.
Revolutionary movements throughout history are so often sparked by the anger, envy, and disappointments of an upper-middle cohort, highly educated, but ill-suited for material success in the existing traditional landscape.
I was getting at that in this post.
Only a minority of the Occupy crowds are actually communists and anarchists bent on revolution. Most are simply idiots. The question is do they become useful idiots.
We need to address the causes that led so many of our young people to believe massive debt for useless majors was a good idea. No good can come of that, even if revolution isn't terribly likely here. But why take the chance? We've seen how they govern themselves. They aren't qualified to judge whether I want fries with my order. Why would we trust them to govern the rest of us?
UPDATE: To clarify, I don't think the danger is socialist revolution. If these jokers took to the hills they'd die of disease before they even had a chance to get waxed by ordinary armed Americans defending their home towns. The danger is that some of these losers will turn to domestic terrorism. And given the happy career of Bill Ayers, they might be forgiven for believing it could be a resume enhancer.
