Posted on 10/26/2020 5:26:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Based on our current trajectory, it seems inevitable: there’s going to be a cultural revolution one way or another. We will either continue with our precarious shift to the left, thereby going over the edge, so to speak. Or we will recover our moral bearings and save our country from collapse. We will be woke or we will be awakened. But either way, there will be a revolution. The center can no longer hold.
In his article in the September edition of Commentary Magazine, titled “Yes, This Is a Revolution,” Abe Greenwald wrote, “The battle for the survival of the United States of America is upon us.”
Indeed, he noted, “If it wasn’t clear in late May and early June, it should be well understood by now that we are in the throes of a genuine revolution of the most extravagant sort. Like messianic revolutionaries of the past, the revolutionary mob of the 21st century is out to ‘remake the world.’ ... This is, then, most fundamentally a revolution against the United States of America and all it stands for.”
Unfortunately, he added, “And yet, we seem to be treating the great unraveling as something less than a revolution.”
To do so would be to make a fatal mistake.
Twenty years ago, when the first edition of my book Revolution first came out, I tried to convince the readers that we were at a cultural crossroads, that we were living in revolutionary times. A major shift was coming, I argued, one that would be either heaven-sent or hell-bent. There was a void and discontent that needed to be filled. Which ideology would win the day?
Now, as the second, updated and revised edition of Revolution has just been released, I hardly need to convince my readers that we are living in revolutionary times. Even though Greenwald noted that many see this “unraveling as something less than a revolution,” many others recognize what is at stake.
Using my Revolution book as a case in point, I can illustrate how much clearer things have become. (The first edition was released September 2000, the second October 2020.)
Each chapter begins with striking opening quotes which then set the tone for the rest of the chapter. When rewriting the second chapter of the book, I replaced every single opening quote from the first edition with a set of entirely new quotes. The chapter now starts with this:
“This isn’t a protest—it’s a revolution!” — shouted through a megaphone during a Black Lives Matter protest in Elgin, Illinois, June 5, 2020.
“This revolution won’t be televised—it’s going to be streamed!”— shouted a protester during a Black Lives Matter rally on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, June 2020.
“This movement is about revolution, not reform.” — Alexandra Hart, a student at Tulane University, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, June 9, 2020.
We are in volatile times, analogous to 1861 or 1968, and anything that can happen often has. —Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump, written in August 2019.
Such quotes could have been easily multiplied. We are living in revolutionary times.
One culturally astute Christian editor emailed me privately, stating that we are on the verge of “plunging the nation into a totalitarian future run by rage-fueled Marxist revolutionaries openly at war with God.”
Do you think he was exaggerating?
Writing from the perspective of a liberal American Jew and with specific reference to the rising tide of antisemitism in America, BarriWeiss said this in Tablet Magazine.
“Over the past few decades and with increasing velocity over the last several years, a determined young cohort has captured nearly all of the institutions that produce American cultural and intellectual life. Rather than the institutions shaping them, they have reshaped the institutions. You don’t need the majority inside an institution to espouse these views. You only need them to remain silent, cowed by a fearless and zealous minority who can smear them as racists if they dare disagree.”
She added, “I share with the majority of American Jews’ disgust toward Trump and Trumpism, which has normalized bigotry and cruelty in ways that have crippled American society. That truth doesn’t detract from another: There is another danger, this one from the left. And unlike Trump, this one has attained cultural dominance, capturing America's elites and our most powerful institutions. In the event of a Biden victory, it is hard to imagine it meeting resistance. So let me make my purpose perfectly clear: I am here to ring the alarm. I’m here to say: Do not be shocked anymore. Stop saying, can you believe. It’s time to accept reality, if we want to have any hope of fixing it.”
All this, of course, is much larger than Trump vs. Biden, and my focus in this article is not on the elections, as important as they may be. And, without a doubt, as much as I oppose many of the policies of the Democrats, I am not looking to Trump and the Republicans to lead the positive, moral and cultural revolution of which I speak.
Instead, it must be spiritually based, meaning that it must be based in a return to God and the Scriptures, a return to prayer and purity. And it must be a multi-faceted awakening, beginning with an awakening of our conscience and of our spiritual and moral bankruptcy.
It must also be a grass-roots awakening, driven from and by the populace to the government rather than from the top down.
And it must truly be revolutionary, just as the Civil Rights movement was revolutionary in so many good ways. And just as the Counterculture Revolution was negative in so many ways.
Nothing less than radical, dramatic change will turn the tide.
The words I wrote to followers of Jesus in 2000 are all the more relevant today: “Fellow-soldiers, holy servants of the risen Lord, blood-bought disciples of the Master, heed the call. It’s now or never, time to put up or shut up. Either we take a stand once and for all or forever we hang our heads in shame. History is awaiting our move. So ... on with it! Let’s start a revolution.”
In the new edition of Revolution, I simply changed the last sentence. It now reads, “Let’s give ourselves wholeheartedly to a Jesus revolution.”
Do we really have a choice?
We split up or become totally socialist because we can see where the union is heading. Only cry baby loser like you that still live in Commiefornica are crying about secession. Hear's an idea for you GTFO of CA and join the secessionists.
Nope.
The split in the US is between the Urban and the Suburban/Rural. Tiny, densely populated urban counties provide almost all of the Left’s power base.
Unfortunately that makes it hard to split country along state lines.
“Funny how all the pro anarchist/revolutionary/civil war types all seem to live behind enemy lines. You (Illinois)”
You assume that because I live in Illinois (I was transferred here from Louisiana, which is our ancestral home) I am a “pro anarchist/revolutionary/civil war” type. You couldn’t be further from the truth: The LAST thing I want is a civil war, and by that I mean a REAL civil war. The unpleasantness of 1861-1865 was a whiffle ball game compared to what a REAL civil war is, where there are no rules or boundaries, just savagery and barbarism and feuds to be settled. Truly nasty stuff.
Wrong. Entire states will secede and work out their internal problems on their own. This will not be a MEGA Bosnia.
Dream on. There’s no session coming. Defeatism won’t make America great again.
You’ve read to many Matt Bracken novels.
Just think: This guy is talking about the President Trump who is persuading the Arabs to normalize relations with Israel and who actually moved the US embassy to Jerusalem.
President Trump is totally failing at Anti-Semitism and Warmongering.
You dream of a 330 million Bosnia?
AMexit
Yep, exactly like Russia and China and Soros planned.
100% RIGHT ON!
AMEN AND AMEN!
When are you GTFO of Virginia? It’s blue as can be.
Trump's habit of saying mean things to stupid people. Which is highly offensive to...well...stupid people. :)
“You’ve read to many Matt Bracken novels.”
No, I’ve read a hell of a lot of history, and still do. I don’t think I’ve ever read a Bracken novel, and if I ever started one I didn’t finish it.
Do you think our civil war of 1861-1865 was the only civil war in history? Our civil war was an aberration, as it was relatively civilized; the general rule of civil wars is that they are the opposite, and usually include the settling of old scores and feuds, with horrific atrocities being commonplace.
Pretty much
Their side has the will but not the means, our side has the means but not the will. So stalemate, except their side also has demographics to their advantage.
BTT
It’ll be even more narrow than the coasts. The corridor along I95 on the east is the spine of the leftist serpent. Plenty of normal Americans, even in “blue” states, live well away from that festering mass and vote red. From Maine all the way into southern Florida, like an infecting virus, calamity and violence rules in the spurs from that interstate.
Democrats Issue Veiled Threat, Vote For Joe Biden Or Cities Burn, Say They Will NOT Concede To Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be60iWavSek
You are right except it is worse than that. What I see is a healthy cohort, supposed to be on our side, bitterly opposed to any effective counter action. Saying
"Don't stoop to their level."
"Why do you have to be so unpleasant?"
"I'm not saying surrender, but you could be nicer about it."
"It makes me uncomfortable when you get like this."
"I don't want to be around you when you get like this."
"That is not Christlike."
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