Thursday, January 19, 2012

Defiance is Fundamental to Revolutionary Change

From a Daniel Greenfield (Sultan Knish blog) post titled So You Want a Revolution….

Defiance is the fundamental virtue of the revolutionary. The left defied the accepted norms and values of America, and that defiance paved the way for a cultural revolution. The power of the left will never be broken until the right defies their values and norms the same way. Until it publicly destroys, mocks and violates everything that they consider sacred in the spirit of revolution.

Revolutions begin as culture wars against the established order and they connect cultural defiance to political change. The fundamental message of every revolution is a defiance of authority and if the revolution succeeds then those in power are forced to give way and accede to change. It can be done. That populist spirit is out there, it is abroad in the Tea Party, it is there in blogs and social media, and even occasionally on talk radio. But all that goes to waste empowering a political establishment of gatekeepers who sometimes talk like revolutionaries, but don’t act like revolutionaries.

Good post to read in its entirety.

Linked via American Digest’s Sidelines.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/19 at 10:43 AM
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