Liberal Marxism : Is This The Second American Revolution?

Did anyone in this country ever believe we would have another revolution? How is it possible that it came on us so fast and get so far along before we recognized it for what it is?

We as Americans have it so good that this kind of thing is unthinkable and very hard to understand or comprehend. This can happen elsewhere in the world but not in America, right?

Wrong - believe it because it's here now and it won't go away with wish full thinking. It demands every one's attention - take the ear buds out - shut off the music and look around at what is happening in our communities and nationally - is this what you want to happen? If not, demand your Representatives do the right thing for our country, future generations will depend on what we do now.

Remember, this government is suppose to work for us, the people, not the other way around.

Two paragraphs from Clay Shirky’s discussion, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable” posted on Instapundit, March 15, 2009.

“*That is what real revolutions are like. The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place. The importance of any given experiment isn’t apparent at the moment it appears; big changes stall, small changes spread. Even the revolutionaries can’t predict what will happen. Agreements on all sides that core institutions must be protected are rendered meaningless by the very people doing the agreeing. (Luther and the Church both insisted, for years, that whatever else happened, no one was talking about a schism.) Ancient social bargains, once disrupted, can neither be mended nor quickly replaced, since any such bargain takes decades to solidify."

"And so it is today. When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place. They are demanding to be told that ancient social bargains aren’t in peril, that core institutions will be spared, that new methods of spreading information will improve previous practice rather than upending it. They are demanding to be lied to."

"There are fewer and fewer people who can convincingly tell such a lie.”