>https://www.zerohedge.com/political/victor-davis-hanson-isnt-your-fathers-left-wing-revolution
good reading for sharing, pasta from later hlaf
Woke revolutionaries are not panhandlers, street people or Grateful Dead groupies. They are not even a few nutty and murderous Symbionese Liberation Army terrorists fighting against "the Man."
They are "the Man."
Our 21st century revolutionaries are multibillionaires with flip-flops, tie-dye T-shirts and nose rings, but with the absolute power and desire to censor how half the country communicates – or cancel them entirely.
They don't flock to campus free-speech areas; they are the campus administrators who ban free speech.
They don't picket outside the Pentagon; they are inside the Pentagon.
They don't chant "eat the rich"; they are the rich who eat at Napa Valley's French Laundry.
They don't protest "uptight" values, because they are more intolerant and puritanical than any Victorian.
They don't believe in racial quotas based on "proportional representation," because they are racists who demand underrepresentation of "bad" racial groups and overrepresentation of "good" groups. The color of our skin is their gospel, not the content of our character.
They are top-down revolutionaries. None of their agendas, from open borders and changing the Constitution to critical race theory and banning clean-burning fossil fuels, are ever favored among a majority of the population.
Their guiding principle is "never let a crisis go to waste." Only in times of a pandemic, a national quarantine or volatile racial relations can the new upscale leftist revolutionaries use fear to push through policies that no one in calm times could stomach.
Our revolutionaries hate dissent. They destroy any who question their media-spun hoaxes.
Truth is their enemy, and fear is their weapon.
Sixties paranoid revolutionaries warned about George Orwell's "1984," but our revolutionaries are "1984."
While this elitist leftist revolution is more dangerous than its sloppy '60s predecessor, it is also more vulnerable, given its obnoxious, top-heavy apparatus – but only if the proverbial "people" finally say to their madness, "Enough is enough."