re: #81 BishopX

I think that there is a bit of a movement afoot to associate youth protests in the west with the much more successful protests in the Middle East. These things get laundered as they progress through various cultures.
First there was the Arab spring with angry, under-utilized, tech savy youth fighting against the autocratic regimes. Then there were the protests in Tel Aviv, Athens, Rome, London and Madrid which were also led by under-utilized youth (the unemployment rate in Spain is approaching 50%). So when Americans protesting cronyism and lack of jobs cite their ideological ancestors they start with Tunisia rather than the much more similar protests in Madrid or London or Athens.

The protests in Israel had hundreds of thousands of people — a full 5% of the country’s population. This thing on Wall Street doesn’t even look to have 5% of that zip code’s residents. There’s less people down there than live in my building.