(1 of 12) VDH: A Different Revolution Than the ‘60s.
Government and debt have grown. Social activism is already institutionalized in hundreds of newer federal programs.

(2 of 12) The “Great Society” inaugurated a multitrillion-dollar investment in the welfare state. Divorce rates soared. The nuclear family waned. Immigration, both legal and illegal, skyrocketed.

(3 of 12) Thus, America is far less resilient, and a far more divided, indebted and vulnerable target than it was in 1965.

(4 of 12) Today, radicals are not protesting against 1950s conservatism but rather against the radicals of the 1960s, who as old liberals now hold power. Now, many of the current enforcers — blue-state governors, mayors and police chiefs — are from the left.

(5 of 12) Unlike Democratic Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley in the ’60s, today’s progressive civic leaders often sympathize with the protesters.

(6 of 12) The ’60s protests were for racial assimilation and integration to reify Martin Luther King Jr.’s agenda of making race incidental, not essential, to the American mindset. Not so with today’s cultural revolution.

(7 of 12) It seeks to ensure that racial difference is the foundation of American life, dividing the country between supposed non-white victims and purported white victimizers, past and present.

(8 of 12) In the ’60s, radicals rebelled against their teachers and professors, who were often highly competent and the products of fact-based and inductive education.

(9 of 12) Not so in 2020. Today’s radicals were taught not by traditionalists but by less-educated older radicals.

(10 of 12) In the ’60s, a huge “silent majority” finally had enough, elected Richard Nixon and slowed down the revolution by jailing its criminals, absorbing and moderating it. Today, if there is a silent mass of traditionalists and conservatives, they remain in hiding.

(11 of 12) If they stay quiet in their veritable mental monasteries and deplore the violence in silence, the revolution will steamroll on.

(12 of 12) But as in the past, if they finally snap, decide enough is enough and reclaim their country, then even this cultural revolution will sputter out, too.

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