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This Isn’t Your Father’s Left-Wing Revolution
American Greatness ^ | June 9, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/10/2021 10:21:38 AM PDT by Mount Athos

Name one mainline institution that the woke Left does not now control—and warp. The media? The campuses? Silicon Valley? Professional sports? The corporate boardroom? Foundations? The K-12 educational establishment? The military hierarchy? The administrative state? The FBI top echelon?

The Left absorbed them all. But this time around it really believes that “by any means necessary” is no mere slogan. Instead, it is a model of how to disrupt or destroy 233 years of American customs, traditions, and values.

Our 21st-century revolutionaries are multibillionaires in flip-flops, tie-dye T-shirts, and nose rings, but with the absolute power and wish to censor how half the country communicates—or cancel them entirely.

They don’t flock to campus free-speech areas; they are the campus administrators who ban free speech.

They don’t picket outside the Pentagon; they are inside the Pentagon.

They don’t chant “eat the rich”; they are the rich who eat at Napa Valley’s French Laundry.

They don’t protest “uptight” values, because they are more intolerant and puritanical than any Victorian.

Their leaders are not stoners who smoke dope, but the stone-sober who scan data on spreadsheets, downloads, and page views.

They don’t believe in racial quotas based on “proportional representation,” because they are racists who demand underrepresentation of “bad” racial groups and overrepresentation of “good” groups.

They are top-down revolutionaries. None of their agendas, from open borders and changing the Constitution to critical race theory and banning clean-burning fossil fuels, ever polls 50 percent.

Their guidebook is “ never let a crisis go to waste.”

Our revolutionaries hate dissent. They destroy any who question their media-spun hoaxes like Russian collusion, the bat origin of COVID-19, or the idea that Hunter Biden’s laptop was a Russian plant.

Truth is their enemy, and fear is their weapon.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 06/10/2021 10:21:38 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

They all live somewhere. This should be changed.


2 posted on 06/10/2021 10:30:10 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (White Privilege does NOT begin with Being White but when you ACT "WHITE"! So, -- ACT "WHITE"!)
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To: Mount Athos

“This Isn’t Your Father’s Left-Wing Revolution”


No, it isn’t.

It is my grandfather’s Left-Wing revolution...pretty much just like the one that he experienced in Russia starting in 1917, which caused him to escape and come to this country in 1923.

The big difference is that my grandfather had a strong and free nation to run to after “his” revolution, whereas I (and everyone else here) have nowhere else to go.


3 posted on 06/10/2021 10:32:48 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops of Isher”)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

They all live somewhere. This should be changed.

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I hate to sound radical, but sadly, this is probably the only response that is not disproportionate to the threat.

Yes, there are true believers who ascend to the heights of academia, media, and corporations, but the problem is that there are many others who simply cow to the left because they have proven themselves to be a viable threat to anyone who doesn’t, and those leftist mobs who intimidate and harass are not prosecuted, time and time again. Everyone can see this. They are not stupid.


4 posted on 06/10/2021 10:35:36 AM PDT by z3n
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To: Mount Athos
Excellent article.

Victor Davis Hanson has a good handle on the Leftist "cultural revolution" that is taking place in today's America.

From his conclusion:

While this elitist leftist revolution is more dangerous than its sloppy 1960s’ predecessor, it is also more vulnerable given its obnoxious, top-heavy apparatus—but only if the proverbial people finally say to their madness, “Enough is enough.”

5 posted on 06/10/2021 10:35:38 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Mount Athos
Nice read, thanks for posting. These are the New Class, a self-styled revolutionary cadre that spouts Marx and practices Mussolini. They're on top and intend to stay that way. They don't read history.
6 posted on 06/10/2021 10:36:22 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Mount Athos

I keep thinking of Enoch Powell and his “Rivers of Blood” speech. There are a lot of people who need to go.


7 posted on 06/10/2021 10:39:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Mount Athos

Right, because my father was never a Leftist.


8 posted on 06/10/2021 10:44:18 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: Mount Athos

As much as I disagree with VDH around maybe 25%

He’s right about this

I’ve told folks this is not like the 60s and 70s

Far worse


9 posted on 06/10/2021 10:48:11 AM PDT by wardaddy (Feel my warmth)
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To: Ancesthntr

The Russians had been disarmed.


10 posted on 06/10/2021 10:50:25 AM PDT by curious7
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To: Mount Athos
Last paragraph: While this elitist leftist revolution is more dangerous than its sloppy 1960s’ predecessor, it is also more vulnerable given its obnoxious, top-heavy apparatus—but only if the proverbial people finally say to their madness, “Enough is enough.”

And that message, "enough is enough" will be conveyed only when the shooting starts imo. The Founding fathers would have been shooting by now.

11 posted on 06/10/2021 11:03:54 AM PDT by LibertyWoman ("Where there is no law, there is no liberty." Benjamin Rush)
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The leftists have taken over large and complex institutions that are in terminal decline.

We just need to stay far away when they collapse.


12 posted on 06/10/2021 11:37:27 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: rhinohunter

When are people going to say enough? That is the real question. I saw Biden was polling at roughly 48 to 50%. How is that possible? And I am not using fake polling... I am using People’s Pundit.


13 posted on 06/10/2021 11:46:13 AM PDT by Saint Athanasius ("I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Mount Athos

Thanks! bfl


14 posted on 06/10/2021 12:01:15 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Biden didn't win the election but he and his anti-MAGA crew did win the WH, shame on the U.S.)
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To: Mount Athos

Bfl


15 posted on 06/10/2021 12:16:47 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: Saint Athanasius

In general, people believe what they’re told to believe.

Especially suburban women watching The View.


16 posted on 06/10/2021 1:14:29 PM PDT by rhinohunter
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To: rhinohunter

President Trump should have taken down ALL satellite communications not needed for the Military. Let the only news come from local towers carrying TV and Radio. The TV is from the Devil. It is the only way. I am talking internet and Cell towers too.


17 posted on 06/10/2021 2:17:59 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: Mount Athos

So these are even worse Communists than the previous Communists?


18 posted on 06/11/2021 4:09:05 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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To: Mount Athos; 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

PING!


19 posted on 06/13/2021 4:33:24 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: LibertyWoman

The quickest way out of this nightmare is through state(s) secession.


20 posted on 06/13/2021 4:37:27 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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