"Many of these protestors are bored trust fund kids, obsessed with being something, being somebody, meaningless lives, they want to matter."
13th October 11
Rush Limbaugh on the Occupy Wall Street protestors.
So it’s come to this: the Right is finally stealing talking points from art school kids. Substitute the phrase “those guys in that one noise-rock band that moved to Brooklyn” for “these protestors,” and I remember hearing that exact same argument from some stoned sculptor in a Pretty Girls Make Graves t-shirt drinking a Miller High Life and sitting next to me on a rotting brown couch on the porch of a collapsing Victorian house where twelve people lived sometime in the spring of 2002. I mean, the exact argument, expressed in precisely the same language. “Trust fund kids”! Those eternal bogeymen and bogey-women of pure, noble self-expression!
The damned trust fund kids are everywhere!
