"democracy as we know it today was the convergence between means (guns) and necessity (this isn’t working out for me). That might be an oversimplification"
As you know, Max, I teach the American Revolution. It's not an oversimplification at all. There are 2 key points though:
1) "for me" -- the case for overturning the system is personal. It has to be hurting you directly in a meaningful way (or at least you have to believe it is.)
2) Only about 1/3rd of the colonists actually believed "it wasn't working for me". It was a cross-section of aristocrats and merchants (elite and middle-class in our modern terms).
Irrespective or what liberals proclaim, they embrace violence in any form that benefits them. Antifa riots? Check. Inner city black violence? Check. The violence of the leftist machine of government against a man who stopped an attack on a NYC subway and the perp died? Check. It is the "conservative" main stream that runs from it even if the violence in question is just standing up to the mob politically. "We cannot behave like them" they bleat while being beaten deaf dumb and blind by violent forces from the left. In modern times we have never seen a better example than what much of Europe has become while their children are beaten and their women are raped by the hordes the left finds so convenient to import. Closer to home the "conservatives" have stood by in places like Oregon where laws are passed to sexually mutilate children without their parents knowledge or consent and the Republican minority, who COULD stop it, continue to show up for work pretending that by being there they influence the outcome when all they really do is provide the numbers needed for legislative business to take place. But it sure is good for fund raising.
"democracy as we know it today was the convergence between means (guns) and necessity (this isn’t working out for me). That might be an oversimplification"
As you know, Max, I teach the American Revolution. It's not an oversimplification at all. There are 2 key points though:
1) "for me" -- the case for overturning the system is personal. It has to be hurting you directly in a meaningful way (or at least you have to believe it is.)
2) Only about 1/3rd of the colonists actually believed "it wasn't working for me". It was a cross-section of aristocrats and merchants (elite and middle-class in our modern terms).
Even #1 isn't enough. My whole life people have believed America is hurting them, yet here they are.
The more I learn about the Revolution, the more I learn how little we've actually been taught about it. It was hardly a popular uprising.
Sshhh. The myth is useful. :-)
Irrespective or what liberals proclaim, they embrace violence in any form that benefits them. Antifa riots? Check. Inner city black violence? Check. The violence of the leftist machine of government against a man who stopped an attack on a NYC subway and the perp died? Check. It is the "conservative" main stream that runs from it even if the violence in question is just standing up to the mob politically. "We cannot behave like them" they bleat while being beaten deaf dumb and blind by violent forces from the left. In modern times we have never seen a better example than what much of Europe has become while their children are beaten and their women are raped by the hordes the left finds so convenient to import. Closer to home the "conservatives" have stood by in places like Oregon where laws are passed to sexually mutilate children without their parents knowledge or consent and the Republican minority, who COULD stop it, continue to show up for work pretending that by being there they influence the outcome when all they really do is provide the numbers needed for legislative business to take place. But it sure is good for fund raising.