#p21 #tlot #tcot #teaparty #union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 [REPRISE] To the Precinct Station http://www.thebaffler.com/articles/to-the-precinct-station How theory met practice . . . and drove it absolutely crazy There is a scene I always recall when I try to remember the exhilarating effect that Occupy Wall Street had on me when it was first getting going. I was on a subway train in Washington, D.C., reading an article about the protests in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan. It was three years after the Wall Street bailouts. It was two years after everyone I knew had given up hope in the creativity of Barack Obama. It was two months after the bankers’ friends in the Republican Party had pushed the country right to the brink of default in order to underscore their hallucinatory economic theories. Like everyone else, I had had enough...