Rules for Revolution

Three simple rules for revolution, starting with The People Have to Eat

Do-Over Revolution?

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November 14, 2023
Do-Over Revolution?

…when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security

The People Have to Eat

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November 30, 2023
The People Have to Eat

My post Do-Over Revolution is now my third most read post. Because there is so much interest I am beginning a series. I don’t really have a plan, but then the point of writing about it is to expand on the idea, see where it goes, test the logic and reason of it, see if it really makes sense. As Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence, “…

The People Have to Be Willing to Die

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December 19, 2023
The People Have to Be Willing to Die

When I started this series I didn’t know about the upcoming film Civil War. The trailer dropped after my third installment. “Seems like it’s for the best” says a female character in the lead. She is working in some small business selling things like nothing has changed, though my first thought was, if there is an actual civil war as depicted in the trai…

Do-Over Revolution #2

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January 4, 2024
Do-Over Revolution #2

My first post in my series about Rules for Revolution, Do-Over Revolution, which set the context of why we might think about a new revolution to restore America, has proved to be my second most popular post. [also, post too long for email.] Reading it again, I’m inclined to still believe in the need for a revolution, while at the same time I fairly talke…

A Conservative Counter-Revolution

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August 28, 2022
A Conservative Counter-Revolution

The woke phenomenon is a revolution by any means necessary. It started in the universities, and it has metastasized into every economic and political field, changing everything it touches radically. It is primarily the naked exercise of power for powers sake, seeking to create new protected classes while deposing the old, cancelling anyone who stands in…