Come the Revolution ...

Some are saying the US is on the brink of civil war.

I wonder if instead they, and all of us, are on the brink of revolution.

People are becoming convinced that government, the big corporations, and media are the common enemy; that there is an immoral “elite” in charge, and they are all colluding for their own interests against the general good.

Jordan Peterson calls it “the fascistic state.” He is right.

Traditionally, the argument between the right and left was because the left thought big corporations were exploiting us, and the government defended us; while the right thought that government was trying to control us, and the free market protected us. Now they are on the same side: the left no longer trusts the government, and the right no longer trusts big corporations.

I think this is largely the result of better communications technology. Veils are being lifted. But I think the ruling elites are also more selfish and less competent than in the past. This comes with the decline of religion and of established moral codes.

I listen to Russel Brand, Jimmy Dore, Joe Rogan, Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, Michael Knowles, Tucker Carlson. Some are supposedly on the left, some on the right. But they are now mostly saying the same things.

It looks as though it is not going to be a conflict between two communities or points of view, as in the US or the Spanish civil wars. It is going to be a conflict between the people and the elite, as in the French or the Russian Revolution.

Granted that there is another faction: the client groups, like the crazies who want to say men can decide to be woman, who demand safe spaces and de-platforming and “equity.” But they have been groomed to be dependent. As a result, they are unlikely to be a serious factor in any active conflict.

The bad news is that this sort of revolution, that throws out the established powers wholesale, tends to end badly. The American Revolution ended well—but because the elite of the colonies remained in place. It was really a civil war. 

We may come to hope for a civil war.