Posted on 07/28/2020 4:46:23 AM PDT by karpov
We are in the midst of a revolution, a cultural and racial one, that seeks to refute the past, damn the present, and hijack the future. So far, however, we have only heard from one side, the revolutionaries and their enablers themselves.
Those trying to reject and then reboot America are small as a percentage of the population, but their tactics are diverse, and their frightened abettors and closet appeasers numerous. The result for now is that, as with most cultural revolutions, a tiny percentage of the population seems to be ascending, given that there is no real organized resistance other than isolated and disgusted individuals.
The cultural revolutionaries are a tripartite group.
On the front lines are the shock troops. For the most part, middle-class urban and suburban white kids, many of them in college, graduated, or dropped out, make up Antifa and its affiliates. They seem to organize the statue toppling, graffiti, and vandalism, as well as the violence at the demonstrations. They show up in ridiculous black-clad Road Warrior outfits, fitted out with cobbled-together hoodies, bicycle helmets, knee pads, and various sports-equipment armor, and occasionally with testudo-like umbrellas and assorted fireworks, rocks, bottle, and bats. All that is a psychodrama far more interesting than showing up at Starbucks at 5 a.m. to start the day’s machinery.
They are the new superfluous elite, in that their college investments brought them neither prestige nor money, but only debt and sloganeering memorized from the sermons of their tenured and comfortable lounge professors. History shows that when would-be, self-important elites have are in surfeit and extraneous, they grow volatile. They wake up to learn that their vaunted education and training were not appreciated and properly compensated by society.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
VDH and McArthy are the only good things left at a once meaningful National Review.
The shock troops are backed by the DNC and global socialists.
It is no coincidence that the global elite are calling for “The Great Reset”. If you do not know what that is, look it up.
This is a massive effort to tear capitalism and freedom down and replace it with marxism led by a handful.
This is a very cogent and insightful read. Once these truths become evident to thought-leaders like VDH— he’s only voicing what others feel but can’t express— the zeitgeist can begin to coalesce around a response... and a counter movement.
Occurs to me the Unorganized Militia May have a role, where the Police are hamstrung.
There is little doubt that consrvatives understand what is happening and the the nation faces. However what of the muddled middle that sadly will determine who wins? Trump has to blow torch his message and demonstrate the risk of a demented Biden leading the country. It won’t be easy since social media, the information platforms and the MSM will reject his ads and censure his supporters.
So what will the majority ultimately do?
It is slowly steaming but for the moment still holds on to a shred of hope that the madness will die out as the revolution cannibalizes its own — even though many know that it will not. Maybe the Democratic Party will tack back to the respectable Left, or so many dream.
Yet at some point, if the rioting and revolution and overt socialism continue, the majority will weigh in, likely from mid September to mid October.
There are a slew of organizations behind this. Each one of them thinks they are going to be the leaders.
Little do they realize they will be eliminated as competition by the most ruthless among them.
And later they will be eliminated by the Patriots.
Ah, finally, a student of history. I'm impressed.
My favorite exegesis of socialism (or whatever name it goes by) is Hayek’s “Road to Serfdom”. In it he lays out the inexorable dynamics of the system. As true now as it was when he wrote it.
Well said. Yes. The devastating push back is going to take some organization for lack of a better term....but it has to happen and it has to be tsunami like.
Is that organization beginning to take place? Each day that more water passes under the bridge allows for America’s enemies’ tsunami to build momentum. If you’re like me, the silence on our side is a bit unnerving right now. When is it that enough IS enough?
Sorry, maybe just got the shakes from my early morning coffee—been making it extra strong lately.
I disagree with his points about “the corporate appeasers”. I suppose many CEOs are frightened appeasers, but others, like those that control social media, are part of the team that is orchestrating this.
Same. And yes the silence is hard to stomach or even understand. I don’t know if the resistance is getting organized yet. I think perhaps vdh would say that it takes a few flash points of open conflict? I was encouraged by john macarthurs excellent treatise a few days ago. I’m encouraged by some private conversations. But then again I go to the store and 90 percent of the people are masked up. No one hassles me but still. Not sure the push back can originate with people living mostly in fear.
Government handouts are a guaranteed paycheck.
I learned this years ago by a friend trying to find an apartment - he was denied by many because he had a job. The renters were looking for Section 8 customers - that check comes every month. A worker could lose their job, have other financial problems, etc. that could endanger paying the rent.
I'm sure Verizon loves the Obamaphone, Walmart loves the EBT card, etc.
When is the last time the right organized any sort of serious ground game? These Marxists have thousands and thousands in the streets of many cities. Not saying we can’t do it, but it’s not our legacy.
I agree with you. Our in the street response is extremely underwhelming. It’s always “wait until they come to the burbs” etc. The left is most emboldened they’ve been since Mao’s revolution.
Most Americans don’t worry in silence. They silently buy more ammunition.
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