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OftenBen  ·  3412 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Where Is America's Real Youth Rebellion?

    Protests always face that kind of resistance. What matters is whether or not the populous is generally sympathetic or not.

Agreed.

But its still a matter of spin. I know exactly how I would completely discredit such a movement nationally. Pick the most burnt-out, hippie looking kids I could, prop them up as an official student representative, preferably in their drug-rug across from or next to a guy in a suit, and ask them simple, baiting questions, get them to use words like socialism, instant target for national scorn and derision. One set of kids gets fed up with 'free speech zones' and spray paints an admin building, BOOM, insta-terrorist, might as well wheel the predator drones out of storage.