The undercurrent Revolution is bubbling up and now we see it - Granite Grok

The undercurrent Revolution is bubbling up and now we see it

mao-cultural-revolution-reeducationBernie Sanders wasn’t kidding when he talked about setting a Revolution into motion.  Problem is, he’s about 140 years late – Joel Kotkin has the observation on our own Mao’s Revolution (emphasis mine):

It’s increasingly unfashionable to celebrate those who made this republic and established its core values. On college campuses, the media and, increasingly, in corporate circles, the embrace of “diversity” extends to demeaning the founding designers who arose from a white population that was 80 percent British.

In this American version of Mao’s “Cultural Revolution,” which tried to eviscerate traces of China’s past, venerable buildings are being renamed, athletes refuse to stand for the national anthem and, on some campuses, waving the American flag is now considered a “microaggression,” while English students at Yale want to avoid reading the likes of Milton, Shakespeare and Chaucer.

Of course, some changes are justified. Asking anyone, particularly African Americans, to revere the Confederate flag or attend schools named after the founder of the Ku Klux Klan is, indeed, offensive. But in our zeal to address old wrongs, we may also be sacrificing the very things that have made this republic so attractive to millions from distinctly different backgrounds for the last two centuries. . . . What ties most Americans to the founders is not race, but our embrace of a political and legal culture based on distinctly Anglo-Saxon ideas about due process, representative government, property rights and free speech. These proved infinitely superior to the divine right of czars, kaisers, emperors and other hereditary autocrats for generations of non-Anglo-Americans.

This system, always capable of amendment, has allowed waves of traditional outsider groups — African Americans, Latinos, women, Mormons, Jews and Muslims — to join the economic, political and cultural mainstream. In some cases, as in the case of President Obama, they have also secured the highest reaches in the national firmament.

As I have said for years, how many bricks can be removed from wall that is Society?  How long can its fundamentals be undermined until it starts leaning and swaying.  Remember, we are the first and ONLY country that was founded on the idea of personal liberties FIRST and not Government.  Yet, with all of the history behind us to the contrary, we see those that really do believe that they are finally “the right people” to implement what has failed over and over and over again.  Instead of being esteemed, those that disagree are passed off as simply “collateral damage” to a New World, a heaven on Earth – AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!

Culture matters, for as Andrew Breitbart famously said “Politics is down stream of Culture”.  Progressives have known this for decades and what we see in college campuses and in the halls of Obama’s Administration show the truth of it. We see them turning things, aa Van Jones once said  “Top Down, Bottom Up, Inside Out” – a total transformation.  And it is always about Power – always – by any means.

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