Emes is by no means advocating for a violent revolution, but as I stated in the title: The Third American Revolution will be necessary if America and The American Way are to survive…
Before getting to the third, let's talk about the First and the Second Revolutions.
The American Revolution had its origins in the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and was materially ushered in by the “shot heard around the world” in Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775, where it all began. Winning its independence on the battlefield against England and bringing the constitutional form of government to fruition, America had been on a long, less-than-starry path to becoming the greatest power on earth through roughly two hundred years of testing foreign wars, civil wars, constitutional challenges, the slow but steady movement for equality, and the gradual march towards equal opportunity for all of its citizens.
That painful but steady path for the Revolution continued through the end of World War II, after which America achieved the unquestioned and unrivaled status of being the most powerful, admired, and envied nation in the world. While one could argue that the Soviets rivaled America as the most powerful nation in the world between 1949 (the date they got the bomb) and the date of its demise in 1991, that is false. While the Soviet Union during that period may or may not have reached military parity with the U.S., that nation never had a domestic economy any larger than the GDP of Denmark.
During those decades after the war, Communism was on the march as a worldwide movement, but Americans didn't need to be on the march because America was the living example of success that the world loved, admired, and did its best to emulate.
America's chief export between 1945 and the demise of the Soviet Union was the ideal of democracy, self-rule, and the material cornucopia that America made accessible to her citizens. The American system created a mechanism by which even those born in poverty had a shot at extricating themselves from those miserable circumstances through hard work, education, and the good fortune that could be achieved through both.
The worldwide Communist movement, as a sociopolitical and economic system, was never competitive with the American system in bestowing material largesse upon its people and the greatest gift of all: Individual Freedom of thought, choice, and action.
The Communists, of course, were unrelenting in their approach to expanding their influence throughout the world, with the idea in mind of a worldwide revolution. So, what did they do?
The Communists, through the official channels of the Soviet Union and their worldwide ideological bomb-thrower known as "Comintern," made it their mission to cut the head off the snake…That snake was the United States of America. In addition to supporting political and military coups all over the world, the Soviet Union and Comintern knew that Communism as an international movement could not expand unless the head of the snake, the American snake, was cut off. The only way to achieve that goal was to destroy America at its foundation.
Starting at the turn of the 20th century before the Russian Revolution, the Communist revolutionary zeal was caught, captured, and spread by Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin, and their minions—those who were to become the bomb-throwers and fathers of the Russian Revolution.
The Communists, writ large, had also planted their seed in America, knowing full well that if they were persistent enough, these ideas would germinate and eventually metastasize. John Reed, the only American buried in the Kremlin Wall and the man after whom Reed College was named, was an early and influential American advocate of the communist disease.
After the Second World War, the Ivy League and other institutions of the American Madrasa had large segments of the faculty who subscribed to and promulgated socialist ideas as being superior, more just, and even more productive than our American Constitutional Republic.
Vietnam and the tribulations of the 1960s and 70s began with the idea that it was the counterculture advocating for the “Hate America” idea, which evolved into our current culture that has now educated three generations to hate their country, accept radical, alien, and hateful ideas, be ignorant of our foundational institutions, and have no sense of either valuing the beauty and institutional genius that created the state or appreciating our American Constitutional Republic.
Without another American Revolution of ideas that restore our nation to its founding principles, where there is a renewed understanding by the entirety of the American citizenry of American history, the Constitution, and the responsibilities of American citizenship, America will not survive as a free country.
Step 1: Overhaul the American Madrasa (University System) and cut off all funding for those institutions that promulgate and inculcate the hate America ethos, which now pollutes the academic environment at virtually every "elite" institution of higher learning in America.
Step 2: Then let's move on to the rest and become as steadfast in expanding the message of the great American Way as the Communists have been since the turn of the 20th century in destroying it.
Simply put, there has to be a Third American Revolution taking us back to the future of 1776.
-Emes