"Meet the New New Left: bold, fun, and stupid, " in TNR

[John Kawakami]

This point about the anarchists (or other protesters) being mostly 
affluent is probably true, but the overall progressive scene is 
probably a lot more global and a lot more available than it has been 
in a long time.  Within the middle class, there are classes, and it 
was only the upper middle classes that were able to mobilize in the 
colleges.  Just from what I've seen in person, the demographic is 
opening up, and kids outside of the colleges are getting networked 
and involved.

The internet is part of the network.

As "elitist" as the internet supposedly is, it's still only a few 
hundred dollars a year.  Going to college is thousands of dollars a 
year, if you go to a public college.  Buying into politics is even 
more expensive and laborious.