Posted on 06/09/2020 12:45:05 PM PDT by gattaca
Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson told "The Ingraham Angle" Monday that the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement has parallels to other mass movements throughout history, including the French Revolution and the Cultural Revolution in Communist China.
"These revolutionary movements are like a stream," Hanson said, "and then all these other streams combine with these different agendas," including "careerist agendas."
"But what happens is," Hanson added, "today's revolutionary becomes tomorrow's counter-revolutionary because you can never satisfy the mob and you have to get more and more extreme."
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Martyrdom is so noble.
The great VDH author of
https://www.amazon.com/War-Like-Other-Athenians-Peloponnesian/dp/0812969707
VDS knows history.
Leftists eat their own.
Leftists also do not read - with any degree of comprehension in any case.
That’s why they are leftists.
And our enemy.
Has Citizen Frey fled Minneapolis?
BLMEiC
Except in Chicago
The Problem With Revolutions is that they revolve all the way back around, and smack you in the face.
Should it be blmish?
“The Problem With Revolutions is that they revolve all the way back around, and smack you in the face.”
And then Napoleon happens.
Very good point!
Aristotle noticed after studying 300 constitutions that the middle class prevents the upper class from destroying the lower class. Marx failed to see this obvious point. America has the greatest middle class and Trump is making it twice the size. Pelosi and poor blacks hate each other economically.
Great! Was telling my son this yesterday. a) Their rhetoric demands they eat their own. b) The more radical they become the more they leave those behind whose belief will not stretch to the same extent as theirs c) others finally wake up and cross to the other side.
“But what happens is,” Hanson added, “today’s revolutionary becomes tomorrow’s counter-revolutionary because you can never satisfy the mob and you have to get more and more extreme.”
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