Is Democracy Coming?

 

A ray of hope: there has been a spontaneous revival, if you haven’t heard, at Asbury University in Kentucky. An estimated 50,000, mostly young, have flocked here over two weeks, before the event was shut down by the college administration.

This is what we need. This is what we needed in the Sixties and Seventies, but it was cruelly shut down then by a moral panic about “cults.” This, spiritual revival, is now the only alternative to societal collapse, and probably the US is the only place capable of it. Everywhere else has actually gone further down the postmodern rabbit hole, except perhaps for Eastern Europe, the Philippines, or Subsaharan Africa.

Let’s see if it spreads now, and hope against hope that it does. It has happened before in America, in the First Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening, in Azusa in 1906, in Duquesne in 1966. One sensed it in the Freedom Convoy to Ottawa a year go.

Leonard Cohen predicted this.

It's coming from the sorrow in the street

The holy places where the races meet

From the homicidal bitchin'

That goes down in every kitchen

To determine who will serve and who will eat

From the wells of disappointment

Where the women kneel to pray

For the grace of God in the desert here

And the desert far away

Democracy is coming to the USA

It's coming to America first

The cradle of the best and of the worst

It's here they got the range

And the machinery for change

And it's here they got the spiritual thirst

It's here the family's broken

And it's here the lonely say

That the heart has got to open

In a fundamental way

Democracy is coming to the USA