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Revolutionary Theory<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Revolution:  when the people rise up against an oppressive government to change its structure.  A \u201ccoup d\u2019etat\u201d,is when an individual leader is overthrown. But a Revolution is a popular movement (of the people) overthrowing a \u201csystem\u201d, not just a tyrant.  Look at revolutions of the past: the American, French and Russian revolts. They didn\u2019t occur when oppression was \u201cat its worst\u201d.  Revolution isn’t a matter of how bad things can get.  Historically it was a matter of \u201chope\u201d:  of people knowing that things were getting better, than having that hope dashed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revolution is about frustration just as much as it is about oppression.  It\u2019s about taking away hard-won gains, improvements that were won \u201cwithin\u201d the system.  When those are stripped away, the frustration that results causes \u201cthe people\u201d to \u201crise up\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

America Today<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In today\u2019s America, there are two different cases that suggest we are a nation on the verge of revolution.\u00a0\u00a0The first is the \u201cfrustration\u201d of the fading white majority, slowly losing power along with its majority status.\u00a0\u00a0Within two decades, white people will no longer be the majority of Americans.\u00a0\u00a0The race that had the majority power since the founding of the Republic; since it could own some minorities and sweep others from their lands, will no longer be able to depend on sheer numbers to dominate elections.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One perspective on the success of \u201cTrumpism\u201d is to see it as a last great struggle of that majority group to maintain control.  In blunt terms:  the Obama Presidency was a \u201cwake-up call\u201d to a new, multi-cultural America.  For those who didn\u2019t appreciate that change, it was the alarm that drove them to the polls in massive numbers, first to elect Trump in 2016, and then to defend him last November.  Their America is dominated by a strict partisan divide. At every level it is near even:   the 2020 Presidential election (81 million for Biden, 74 million for Trump), the Senate (50 Dems, 50 Reps), Governorships (27 Reps, 23 Dems), and in the House (Dems 222, Rep 212).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past Majority<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The four years of the Trump Administration gave that fading majority group \u201chope\u201d.  Mike Pompeo, Trump\u2019s Secretary of State and an obvious future Presidential candidate summed it up in a tweet last week:  \u201c<\/em>Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms \u2014 they\u2019re not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker\u2026\u201d<\/em>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a more esoteric way, that conflict is demonstrated by the New York Times\u2019 <\/em>1619 Project<\/em><\/a> <\/em>versus the Trump Administration\u2019s <\/em>The 1776 Report<\/em><\/a>.   1619 <\/em>places slavery at the foundation of much of American prosperity.  It posits that the original sin of America was slavery, one that has neither been acknowledged nor atoned for. 1776 <\/em>was written by a commission of conservative Christian historians for the Trump Administration to directly repudiate 1619.  <\/em>It denigrates the impact of slavery both on American social and economic advancement, taking the more traditional, \u201cgreat individuals, primarily white, made a great American\u201d stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, by a relatively slim margin, Trumpian \u201chopes\u201d have been frustrated.  And their leaders, with Trump at the head, stoked that frustration with the \u201cfalse hope\u201d that the election was stolen.  It should be no surprise that they were willing to storm the Capitol, hang the Vice President, and overthrow the Constitution.  Ironic that they were protesting the one Constitutional provision, the Electoral College, that gave their minority view political power four years before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Future Majority<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Concurrently, the \u201cfuture\u201d majority is now feeling empowered.\u00a0\u00a0The symbol of \u201cwhite majoritarianism\u201d is the former President, the first to be impeached twice.\u00a0\u00a0They view the 2020 election as a repudiation of Trumpism.\u00a0\u00a0And the changing politics of the South, with Georgia and Arizona going for Biden, and North Carolina and even Texas becoming \u201cbluer\u201d,\u00a0\u00a0are a positive signs of the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But states like Georgia, Arizona, Texas and Pennsylvania are also trying to enact voting restrictions, with the clear desire to reduce minority voter participation.  And should they be successful in minority voter suppression, that will serve to frustrate them, perhaps leading to a disenchantment with the current electoral processes.  Nothing \u201ccalls\u201d the revolution more than gaining power legally, then having that power ripped away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insurrection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We are learning that the \u201cInsurrection\u201d was not just a spontaneous uprising of a \u201cmob\u201d of Trump supporters.\u00a0\u00a0There was planning involved, planning by the extremists who wanted to use the mob as cover, and by the organizers to use mob action to pressure Cgress.\u00a0\u00a0In short, the mob was intentionally created, and intentionally used.\u00a0\u00a0Whether their ultimate violence was \u201cintended\u201d by the Trump Administration, is still an open question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Insurrection is not a Revolution.  Revolution is much deeper than a riot in the Capitol, or in the streets of American cities.  Revolution comes when a vast number of Americans come to believe that their government no longer can represent their interests.  In fact, it comes when the Revolutionaries have lost all hope of \u201cpolitical\u201d change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Changes in our Nation are inevitable.\u00a0\u00a0America is America:\u00a0\u00a0we are becoming more \u201cmulti-cultural\u201d in spite of Mike Pompeo\u2019s wishes.\u00a0\u00a0And the \u201cinalienable rights\u201d are more than just those that the Founding Fathers\u2019 envisioned, in spite of the authors of the\u00a01776 Project.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0The predominantly white, Christian, European nation those Founders led is old news.\u00a0Luckily, they left us Founding documents that allow our changing nation to expand our structures and our beliefs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without that expansion, Revolution would be inevitable. The frustration will make people Rise Up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Revolutionary Theory Revolution:  when the people rise up against an oppressive government to change its structure.  A \u201ccoup d\u2019etat\u201d,is when an individual leader is overthrown. But a Revolution is a popular movement (of the people) overthrowing a \u201csystem\u201d, not just a tyrant.  Look at revolutions of the past: the American, French and Russian revolts. They didn\u2019t occur when … Continue reading “Rise Up”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nRise Up : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Is Trump the "last stand" of the white majority? 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