The interesting thing about 20-somethings struggling to find full time work at nearly the levels millennials did during an actual recession is that…
…healthcare (and a mortgage) are the only two things that prevented most of us from participating in Occupy Wall Street.
The next time some mass protest like that occurs, the government can’t rely on the fact that most of us have healthcare we need or, some of us, even mortgages.
Shit gonna get wild yo
Even back then, once the public support died down a bit they just had the NYPD bulldoze the whole thing. Since then the police have only gotten more brazenly violent against protests that are not in the establishment’s interests.
Shit will get “wild” when instead of picket signs and bullhorns, people start bringing rifles and pipe bombs. Otherwise the outcome of any meaningful protest will be the same no matter how many people show up: an unforgiving police crackdown.
That’s if people just… Stink up public parks without any organization or plan again.
Edit: as I said elsewhere recently…
What about my cat? She’s not the social revolutionary type.
Something something galvanized square steel
Don’t forget aunt EXPANSION BOLTS