You know, now that I thought about it some more, that conservative writer is at the same time very smart and very short sighted. As conservatives tend to do, he knows that above all humans want one thing: Living every day like their last, meaning that every day is the same. Or in other words: stability. They want to know that their dollars buy them the same amount of bread and shelter tomorrow than they do today.
So he assumes the position of the middle class, who want to go about their business and face the challenges of adult life without meddling hippies and idealists, who are apparently hell bent on causing instability for no reason.
The author probably has an easy time assuming that point of view. He already is someone, maybe has a family and a steady job. He has a status quo worth protecting.
What he fails to see is that the protesters want the exact same thing as the middle class they want to destroy in his opinion, they only come from a different position. They are at the beginning of their lifes, they want to make something out of themselves, start careers of their own and learn to survive in this world. But just like the author they want stability: Knowing that their college degrees they worked for are worth something in the economy, that they are not being exploited and that they can achieve the same standard of living as their parents. Much of it might be naivity or misplaced idealism, but it is not as stupid as that commentator makes it out to be.
