{"id":11217,"date":"2011-09-19T08:38:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11217"},"modified":"2012-07-11T09:39:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T14:39:08","slug":"the-day-of-rage-turns-into-a-damp-squib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/the-day-of-rage-turns-into-a-damp-squib\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Day of Rage&#8221; turns into a damp squib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently it wasn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/zombie\/2011\/09\/18\/day-of-fail-nationwide-anti-capitalist-revolution-flops\/?singlepage=true\" target=\"_blank\">the start of the anti-capitalist revolution<\/a> after all:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>September 17 was supposed to be the Day of Rage, the starting point of an anti-capitalist revolution that (in theory) was going to sweep the country coast-to-coast. As I noted yesterday, \u201cThe plan is to protest in state capitals and major cities across the nation, but the focus of the revolution will be in New York, where a hoped-for 20,000 anti-capitalists will \u2018occupy\u2019 Wall Street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I dutifully sent my operatives out to cover what were to be three of the largest Day of Rage protests &mdash; in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles &mdash; so humanity would have a full record of this pivotal moment in history.<\/p>\n<p>Really, I should have learned my lesson by now: The bigger the build-up to a protest, and the more grandiose the promises, the louder the sound of the bellyflop onto the dustbin of irrelevancy.<\/p>\n<p>In other words: \u201cDay of Rage\u201d was a massive FAIL.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lots of sad photos at the link. Even the fringy-est of fringe movements were represented. As one of the photo captions says, &#8220;Down in L.A., there were so few authentic protesters, that the LaRoucheites comprised a significant proportion of the attendees.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently it wasn&#8217;t the start of the anti-capitalist revolution after all: September 17 was supposed to be the Day of Rage, the starting point of an anti-capitalist revolution that (in theory) was going to sweep the country coast-to-coast. As I noted yesterday, \u201cThe plan is to protest in state capitals and major cities across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[750,321,835,720,503],"class_list":["post-11217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-losangeles","tag-nyc","tag-occupymovement","tag-protest","tag-sanfrancisco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2UV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15982,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217\/revisions\/15982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}