The Importance of Activism for Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party

The Importance of Activism for Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party
Over at The Economist, in a post titled “This is what ineffective action looks like”:Many of these aggrieved youth believe that the government has become unresponsive, that their voices have been silenced, and therefore protest is the only option. But this strikes me as a fundamental misreading of the past three years. It is likely that few of the protesters have actually taken part in the more mundane aspects of the system they’d like to take down—for example, of 18- to 29-year-olds voted in the 2010 mid-term elections. …