Winter is coming to New York, NY, and Washington, DC. Rainy today. Leaves turning. Getting cold. Snow in December, maybe November. Frost in the morning in October, for sure, maybe ice.
Not much fun for urban youth to be outside all night on hard city streets and sidewalks covered with frost and ice, and then blizzards, with, at best, a sleeping bag. They will go home. Maybe come back in the spring.
LA, who knows? Not cold but not Wall Street, either.
Back in the 60's (I was there), the protesters calling for violence were mostly police undercover, trying to incite the gullible into getting arrested.
I think that what looks like dangerous transgression in Chinese culture is just acting out, letting off steam, in US culture, to be tolerated. A way of letting people know what they think. No tanks are going to roll, and no bourgeoisie will be epatered.
I have read, and suspect, that US and world is slipping into another recession. You may see your blood on the US streets yet, but not this year. |
