Day of Rage Becomes Day of Slightly Delayed Pedestrians
The rage still burns brightly on the streets of Manhattan tonight as young progressives mount their third day or protest against the great evil that is corporate America. Well, okay, it’s not so much “rage” as it is a sort of annoyed milling about and as for “brightly”, I’ve seen better from one of those old penlight flashlights with a half-dead battery in it.
Protesters complaining about the unchecked power of the financial industry staged noisy demonstrations that slowed pedestrian traffic on Wall Street for a third day on Monday, vowing to continue “for as long as it takes” to achieve vague demands.
Up to 150 protesters near the New York Stock Exchange held up signs saying “we must end corporate tyranny and corruption” and “debt is slavery”. The protesters claimed up to 350 demonstrators had come and gone throughout the morning.
Here are two things to note about this left-wing protest. First, they started preparing for it three months ago and expected to draw between 20,000 and 90,000 people on Saturday. They drew about a thousand. That is sad by any measure. You can get more people out of their houses in New York City if you put a lobster truck on the corner. You can’t get a good drum circle going with less than 2,000
Second, well look at what their “march” produced. They managed to slightly inconvenience some people going to work or out to grab a bite to eat. They couldn’t generate enough heat to get a good, loud drum circle going. If you gave me 50 people, I could pick one evil corporation and make it darned difficult to get into its building and I don’t even own a Che t-shirt! These poor schmucks couldn’t clog the revolving door or chain themselves to something in the lobby? They shame the long tradition of whack-a-doodle hippie protest.
The sad plight of the Starbucks-swilling, iPhone-toting left-wingers whose idea of a protest is to mill about aimlessly on a crowded sidewalk ought to cheer us conservatives. It, more than anything I’ve seen this month, tells me that progressivism is in its final throes. To be sure, it can still twitch mightily, but its power is nearly gone. Its day is done. We should get about burying it as deeply as we can so that it will never rise to vex humanity again.
Other Posts of Interest:
- You Can’t Teach Them If They Won’t Learn
- The One Nation March Didn’t Seem Much Into This Nation.
- That Kind of Ignorance, You Can’t Cut with a Torch
Category: Progressives
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