Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)
by wwweston on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:19PM
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I feel like there's an important data point overlooked in the 1860s?
Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)
by SantalBlush on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:58PM
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Not to mention the labor upheavals of the early 20th century.
Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)
by dehrmann on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:53PM
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How was the the revolutionary period "moral convulsion?" Political, sure, but not moral.
Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)
by marcusverus on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:04PM
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The widespread adoption of the civil libertarian ethos (under the guise of unalienable rights, endowed by a creator) might be the greatest moral convulsion in human history.
Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)
by vulcan01 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:17PM
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> civil libertarian ethos
People living in the colonies already had this. When Parliament started asserting more control over the colonies, they fought to restore their control over government.
> American history is driven by periodic moments of moral convulsion. The late Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington noticed that these convulsions seem to hit the United States every 60 years or so: the Revolutionary period of the 1760s and ’70s; the Jacksonian uprising of the 1820s and ’30s; the Progressive Era, which began in the 1890s; and the social-protest movements of the 1960s and early ’70s.
* https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing...
The 2020s was about when the US was 'due' for something to happen, so the next decade or so will apparently be a bit of a ride.