vietnam

It’s winter. The temperature is below freezing. You hear the sound of breaking glass. Your kids start screaming. An intruder is at your front door.

The Occupy protesters imagine that they stand in a great tradition of American radicalism, willing to stand up to the man and risk arrest in order to achieve their goals. The most obvious case of such a mass movement would be the anti-war protests of the 1960s. They started small and grew and grew until …