Funny how quickly the right discovers its hostility to spending as soon as a Democrat takes office. But this metaphor seems a little unhinged to me (from an email posted by Glenn Reynolds):
As someone who has studied (and blogged) protest as an act of democratic revolution and people power in the post-Soviet area, I know a lot about the dynamics of mass civil society unrest, government transition, etc… What we are seeing now is truly huge POTENTIAL for massive civil unrest against the American government gone lunatic with spending. Realistically, 400-1000 people at a protest, even at a dozen protests across the country, will do nothing to change the minds of our idiot leaders. However, it creates the POTENTIAL that each protest could have a million.
The Orange Revolution in Ukraine did not start out with two million people camping in tents in downtown Kiev. It started with only a few hundred diehard activists.
Yes, it’s comparable to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine – you know, when the rightful winner of an election was denied office by the post-Soviet order. The only difference is that this current protest is against a president just elected in a landslide with approval ratings of 67 percent.
The Dish 