[frog in a pot]

I think we are on the verge of a true revolutionary party that is going to be resorting to wholesale violence/terrorism on a constant basis at some point.

To the extent that history repeats itself, your concern could be valid. The seeds of the revolution in Russia that blossomed in 1917 can be traced to 1899-1902 conditions. The dynamics of then and now are not dissimilar.

In any event, 650 law professors petitioning for a Kavanaugh withdrawal alone provides ample room for concern.

How our government responds in the next few years may cast the die.

[arrogantsob]

The precursors of the RR go back even further than the Revolution of 1905.

Western ideas had undermined the basis of Russian nationalism and there were numerous radical parties by the middle 1800s.

Nihilism was the in-thing for decades and is extensively dissected in Dostoevsky in his novels especially in The Devils or The Possessed. He put it on the collapse of religious belief.