re: #170 Killgore Trout

I think that’s pretty spot on. I would add one more factor; The appeal of extremists. We saw this with the breakup of LGF with the counterjihad movement. Some people would openly admit that maybe it’s time to fight extremism with extremism. The Tea Party did the same thing. Embracing groups like the OathKeepers made the movement feel powerful that they had their own potentially violent extremists on their wide. We see the same thing with OWS palling around with anarchists. They provide the muscle and make the protesters feel powerful because they have their pet extremists.

i don’t want to lock horns with you again, d00d, but in a friendly way i will say that you do engage in a lot of what i would call ‘mind reading’ in regard to OWS, and a tendency to conceive of it as a unified and organized movement

“i don’t belong to any organized political party - i’m a democrat!” - will rogers