The coming revolution?

Bruce Kesler, one of the most levelheaded guys I know in the blogosphere, thinks we’re nearing a flashing point:

During the past week, I’ve had conversations with old friends – leftist, centrist, and conservative – with whom I experienced the political battles of the 1960’s. All of us have a similar take on what’s happening now, compared to then. Then, it was a challenge against authority primarily by the privileged young who didn’t want to serve in the war, which dissipated rapidly once the draft ended, while their ideologues took refuge in academia to rise to insulated tenure of attachment to their old slogans and some of their ilk to gerrymandered seniority in Congress. Obama was a tot then, but raised on their radical bromides. Now, it is the broader swath of working and middle class Americans, a far larger and more potent population, who are fed up and angry with being exploited and insulted by those who feel it their right and duty to impose their schemes to rearrange and endanger everyone else’s lives and weaken the America that sustains us. We all feel the potential for violence is high. Enough everyday Americans will defend themselves against thuggish attacks upon their right to speak out.

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As for me, I see it on TV and I read it in the blogs, but I’m still having a hard time envisioning the flashpoint happening.  Where I Iive, there is no time bomb waiting to explode.  Instead, there is palpable torpor.  Of course, I don’t live at the margins where red and blue meet.  Obama won here by over 75%, and I’m not even looking over the Bay to Berkeley or San Francisco.  I guess that’s why the good citizens are still lying in bed smoking their post-election cigarette and feeling the bliss.  They haven’t yet figured out that, quite literally, they’ve been screwed.