Viva la revolution
17th September 2005
The author of this Democratic Underground article looks shrinking middle class and the erosion of freedom of speech and expression and says the nation is ripe for a revolution:
Robert Heinlein characterized revolution as “a freak, a mutant, a monstrosity, its conditions never to be repeated and its operations carried out by amateurs and individuals.” A colorful way of saying that, like Tolstoy’s unhappy families, each is unique. The coming revolution, therefore, won’t look like the Boston Tea Party, or the rush to the barricades in 1789, or the storming of the Winter Palace in 1917. It won’t even look like the labor unrest of the 1920s or the long, hot summers of the 1960s in America. I don’t know what it will look like, exactly. But revolution, real revolution, is rarely pretty.
If there is a revolution, I certainly hope that it is one guided by the libertarian-flavored wisdom contained in the works of Robert A. Heinlein.
Which pretty much leaves out anyone associated with Democratic Underground.