{"id":12591,"date":"2020-08-28T15:51:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12591"},"modified":"2020-08-28T15:51:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:51:55","slug":"angry-reader-08-28-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-08-28-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Reader 08-28-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From\nAn Angry Reader:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victor,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what are you and your\npowerless conservative \u201cthought leader\u201d ilk going to do about our Revolution?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep writing your\npathetic articles stating the obvious, keep bloviating on your self satisfied\ntalk shows, keep preaching to your social distanced conservative choir as they\nsing themselves to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you feel\ncomfortable in your safe space describing the shock and awe as your country\nslowly melts away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is why our\nRevolution will win: we are organized, we are advancing, we are fighting\nfor what we know is our truth, while all you obsolete right wing relics just\nsit there alone pontificating with your myths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Chad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

____________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Angry Reader Chad Abel,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I admire your candor in confessing you at least believe\nyou are a serious revolutionary, whatever that means today in our leisured and\naffluent society. Your revolutionary comrades have strange tastes,\nthough\u2014storming the Million Dollar Mile in Chicago to grab Gucci trinkets,\ntrying to roast alive working-class police barricaded in a precinct under siege\nin Portland, toppling or defacing statues of Ulysses S. Grant and Frederick\nDouglas, or injuring 700 police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We agree you are \u201corganized,\u201d perhaps \u201cadvancing,\u201d and\ncertainly \u201cfighting\u201d against the usually unarmed and vulnerable. But there is\nnothing \u201ctrue\u201d about any of you. Your forte is for the mob to kick and injure\nthe elderly, the scared, and the defenseless already on the ground, not to\nstorm into the working-class suburbs or the rural towns of Utah or Texas to\ntake on your apparent natural enemies. You talk glibly, but your\nrevolutionaries are so poorly educated that they deface the World War II\nmonument and the Lincoln Memorial\u2014was your message that Nazism and Japanese\nfascism or Confederate slave-owning were all preferable to the icons you\ndefaced?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oddly, you seem to know a great deal about what I write\nand watch where I appear; but if they provide you such anger to produce a\npuerile rant like this, then why become so fixated and obsessed? Why not\ninstead write for your followers and go to CNN or MSNBC to share your zeal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country is challenged but it is not \u201cmelting\u201d\naway\u2014yet. And you should hope it does not when you are in extremis. Everything\nyou hate is what you depend on: when you need surgery, or antibiotics, or to\ndrive a car, or to use a computer, or to enter a building, or to board a plane,\nyou are ignorantly drawing on the dividends of a sophisticated society that you\nneither understand nor contribute to, but always come home to when in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cRevolution\u201d is parasitical, from its narcissistic,\nself-obsessed selfies, to its ridiculous Antifa-chic black garb and fashionable\nriot gear, to the whiny nasal screams of your comrades when you occasionally\nspit too much and swear too often in the face of a policeman who decides to\npush back\u2014sending your comrades into fetal positions screaming about the\nunfairness of it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, yours is not a revolution, but the bored angst of a\npampered class, bored from being locked up in quarantine and in hock for\nthousands of dollars in student loans for educations that were empty, and angry\nmore at yourselves than your often incoherently targeted enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you were born a bit earlier, you would be swallowing\ngoldfish, cramming into a telephone booth, or in the mud at Woodstock, because\nyou are bored pranksters and pampered parasites, not revolutionaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Victor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From An Angry Reader: Victor, So what are you and your powerless conservative \u201cthought leader\u201d ilk going to do about our Revolution? Keep writing your pathetic articles stating the obvious, keep bloviating on your self satisfied talk shows, keep preaching to your social distanced conservative choir as they sing themselves to sleep. I hope you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3h5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11259,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-07-03-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":12591,"position":0},"title":"Angry Reader 07-03-2018","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: I was hopeful to find insightful conservative thought for a change, however I was disappointed to find yet another partisan albeit under the guise of an academic. 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