Question of the Day: Will America Ever Have Another Revolution?

The question comes at the end of this video on the libertarian movement and its relation to (what passes for) conservatism...

Violence Justified say Young People Opposed to Present Government

Youth more radically opposed to present government than tea parties, poll finds A full 17 percent of those ages 18-29 said yes, that violence would be justified, while a further 15 percent were not “not sure.” Granted, while those figures come out to a clear majority of young people — 68 percent — saying violence is not justified, it also means that 32 percent either disagree or haven’t made up their minds.

Another statistic sure to surprise some beltway liberals were the responses of poor people, who tied with tea partiers at 13 percent in saying violence would be justified. A further 24 percent said they weren’t sure, bringing their level of certainty against violence down to just 63 percent.

Compounding the potential for civil unrest, the poor and the tea parties, according to prior statistics, were two very different, separate groups with virtually no cross-over.

In a survey of Americans who voted in 2008, the nonpartisan group Project Vote found that, by and large, those sympathetic to the tea parties were white, wealthy and affluent people, whose political views represented approximately 29 percent of the electorate.

By comparison, blacks, youths and low-income voters, who turned out in record numbers to support President Obama, make up 32 percent of the electorate — and their views could not be any more different than their conservative counterparts.

The poll, published last Sept., described tea party participants as “overwhelmingly white” and “universally dissatisfied,” even though having “the least reason for dissatisfaction.”

Youth more radically opposed to present government than tea parties, poll finds “Only six percent [of tea party participants] reported having to worry about buying food for their families in the past year, compared to 14 percent of voters nationwide, 37 percent of blacks, 21 percent of youths, and 39 percent of low-income voters,” they added.

Discussing the partisan rhetorical fray on MSNBC last night, liberal news anchor Keith Olbermann failed to mention these figures, focusing instead on tea partiers and violent rhetoric prevalent in many Republicans’ public discourse.

Global revolution?

Youth more radically opposed to present government than tea parties

If you’ve never seen a mad Hungarian, buckle up

If we had to guess, we’d suggest that one of the first countries to go revolutionary will be Hungary. The Magyars have a long history of revolting against thieving and oppressive leaders, and if one thing is certain it’s that the country of Hungary is now completely broke because of the same reasons as Greece. Elected officials have been manipulating the numbers in Hungary for years, stealing their share while further enriching mega-banks at the cost of making their people poorer. If you’ve never seen a mad Hungarian, buckle up. Once their currency goes hyperinflationary or their country is forced to default on their debt, essentially destroying their currency system, it’s going to get ugly. The last time the Hungarians had a large-scale revolution, headless bodies lined the streets.

For Some Countries Revolution Will Be Orderly and Constructive, For Others It Will Be Violent

A Second American Revolution?

The Internet is a large-scale version of the "Committees of Correspondence" that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington's failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another.

People are asking, "Is the government doing us more harm than good? Should we change what it does and the way it does it?"

Pruning the power of government begins with the imperial presidency.

Too many overreaching laws give the president too much discretion to make too many open-ended rules controlling too many aspects of our lives. There's no end to the harm an out-of-control president can do.

Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?

Alderson Warm-Fork: Is the Revolution Going to Come?

It occurred to me that I’ve never directly discussed the issue of grand historical expectations – in particular, the expectation, widespread on the hard left, that sooner or later there will be a worldwide social convulsion of some sort in which, over however long and protracted a period, power structures will be dismantled, property will be socialised, freedom may or may not ring, and rule will be replaced with self-rule.

Is the Revolution Going to Come?